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Debian: DSA-5235-1 Urgent: Bind9 DoS Security Flaws Affecting Systems

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2022
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The Debian security advisory DSA-5236-1 deals with various vulnerabilities in the OpenSSH package, which may compromise system integrity and reliability.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in BIND, a DNS server implementation

Summary

CVE-2022-2795

Yehuda Afek, Anat Bremler-Barr and Shani Stajnrod discovered that a
flaw in the resolver code can cause named to spend excessive amounts
of time on processing large delegations, significantly degrade
resolver performance and result in denial of service.

CVE-2022-3080

Maksym Odinintsev discovered that the resolver can crash when stale
cache and stale answers are enabled with a zero
stale-answer-timeout. A remote attacker can take advantage of this
flaw to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via specially
crafted queries to the resolver.

CVE-2022-38177

It was discovered that the DNSSEC verification code for the ECDSA
algorithm is susceptible to a memory leak flaw. A remote attacker
can take advantage of this flaw to cause BIND to consume resources,
resulting in a denial of service.

CVE-2022-38178

It was discovered that the DNSSEC verification code for the EdDSA
algorithm is susceptible to a memory leak flaw. A remote attacker
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Package: bind9
CVE ID: CVE-2022-2795 CVE-2022-3080 CVE-2022-38177 CVE-2022-38178

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