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Mageia 9 MGASA-2023-0303 Moderate: Bind DoS and Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to bind packages in Mageia have addressed critical security vulnerabilities, particularly those that could lead to system crashes arising from flaws in packet parsing.
The code that processes control channel messages sent to `named` calls certain functions recursively during packet parsing

Summary

The code that processes control channel messages sent to `named` calls certain functions recursively during packet parsing. Recursion depth is only limited by the maximum accepted packet size; depending on the environment, this may cause the packet-parsing code to run out of available stack memory, causing `named` to terminate unexpectedly. Since each incoming control channel message is fully parsed before its contents are authenticated, exploiting this flaw does not require the attacker to hold a valid RNDC key; only network access to the control channel's configured TCP port is necessary. (CVE-2023-3341)
A flaw in the networking code handling DNS-over-TLS queries may cause `named` to terminate unexpectedly due to an assertion failure. This happens when internal data structures are incorrectly reused under significant DNS-over-TLS query load. (CVE-2023-4236)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32039

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6390-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3341

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4236

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/bind-9.18.15-2.2.mga9

Severity
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Publication date: 27 Oct 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0303.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-3341, CVE-2023-4236

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