BIND 9 DNS Parsing Complexity DoS (v9.0.0-9.19.19)
CVE-2023-4408 Published on February 13, 2024

Parsing large DNS messages may cause excessive CPU load
The DNS message parsing code in `named` includes a section whose computational complexity is overly high. It does not cause problems for typical DNS traffic, but crafted queries and responses may cause excessive CPU load on the affected `named` instance by exploiting this flaw. This issue affects both authoritative servers and recursive resolvers. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.0.0 through 9.16.45, 9.18.0 through 9.18.21, 9.19.0 through 9.19.19, 9.9.3-S1 through 9.11.37-S1, 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.45-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.21-S1.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-4408 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.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

An algorithm in a product has an inefficient worst-case computational complexity that may be detrimental to system performance and can be triggered by an attacker, typically using crafted manipulations that ensure that the worst case is being reached.


Products Associated with CVE-2023-4408

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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
 
NetApp Ontap
 
Fedora Project Fedora
 
ISC BIND
 
Oracle
 

Affected Versions

ISC BIND 9:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.21%
Percentile
42.73%

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