Stale-Answer Race in BIND 9 9.16.129.19.8 Causing Assertion Failure
CVE-2022-3924 Published on January 26, 2023
named configured to answer from stale cache may terminate unexpectedly at recursive-clients soft quota
This issue can affect BIND 9 resolvers with `stale-answer-enable yes;` that also make use of the option `stale-answer-client-timeout`, configured with a value greater than zero.
If the resolver receives many queries that require recursion, there will be a corresponding increase in the number of clients that are waiting for recursion to complete. If there are sufficient clients already waiting when a new client query is received so that it is necessary to SERVFAIL the longest waiting client (see BIND 9 ARM `recursive-clients` limit and soft quota), then it is possible for a race to occur between providing a stale answer to this older client and sending an early timeout SERVFAIL, which may cause an assertion failure.
This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.12 through 9.16.36, 9.18.0 through 9.18.10, 9.19.0 through 9.19.8, and 9.16.12-S1 through 9.16.36-S1.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-3924 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is an assertion failure Vulnerability?
The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary.
CVE-2022-3924 has been classified to as an assertion failure vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
ISC BIND 9:- Version 9.16.12, <= 9.16.36 is affected.
- Version 9.18.0, <= 9.18.10 is affected.
- Version 9.19.0, <= 9.19.8 is affected.
- Version 9.16.12-S1, <= 9.16.36-S1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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