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GHSA-PQXC-54M5-8R8M

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-09-22 00:00 – Updated: 2022-09-25 00:00

Details

An attacker can leverage this flaw to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources. Upon restart the attacker would have to begin again, but nevertheless there is the potential to deny service.

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "modified": "2022-09-25T00:00:26Z",
  "published": "2022-09-22T00:00:32Z",
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CVE-2022-2906 (GCVE-0-2022-2906)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-21 10:15 – Updated: 2025-05-28 15:25

Summary

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

In BIND 9.18.0 -> 9.18.6 and versions 9.19.0 -> 9.19.4 of the BIND 9.19 development branch, changes between OpenSSL 1.x and OpenSSL 3.0 expose a flaw in named that causes a small memory leak in key processing when using TKEY records in Diffie-Hellman mode with OpenSSL 3.0.0 and later versions.

Assigner

isc

References

URL

Tags

	https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-2906
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/21/3	mailing-list
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-25	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ISC	BIND9	Affected: Open Source Branch 9.18 9.18.0 through versions before 9.18.7 Affected: Development Branch 9.19 9.19.0 through versions before 9.19.5

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GHSA-PQXC-54M5-8R8M

CVE-2022-2906 (GCVE-0-2022-2906)

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