CVE-2023-2911 (GCVE-0-2023-2911)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-06-21 16:26
Modified
2025-02-13 16:49
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
If the `recursive-clients` quota is reached on a BIND 9 resolver configured with both `stale-answer-enable yes;` and `stale-answer-client-timeout 0;`, a sequence of serve-stale-related lookups could cause `named` to loop and terminate unexpectedly due to a stack overflow. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.33 through 9.16.41, 9.18.7 through 9.18.15, 9.16.33-S1 through 9.16.41-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.15-S1.
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ISC BIND 9 Version: 9.16.33   <
Version: 9.18.7   <
Version: 9.16.33-S1   <
Version: 9.18.11-S1   <
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