Out-of-bounds read in ISC BIND - CVE-2022-2881

 

Out-of-bounds read in ISC BIND - CVE-2022-2881

Published: September 21, 2022 / Updated: October 20, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU67546
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2881
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when reusing HTTP connection while requesting statistics from the stats channel. A remote DNS server under attacker's control trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

ISC BIND
Gentoo Linux
Oracle Solaris
Ubuntu
openEuler
HPE Moonshot 1500 Chassis Manager
bind9 (Ubuntu package)
bind-export-libs
python3-bind
bind-debugsource
bind-export-devel
bind-libs-lite
bind-chroot
bind-devel
bind-pkcs11-devel
bind-pkcs11
bind-debuginfo
bind-libs
bind-utils
bind
bind-license
bind-pkcs11-libs
bind-dnssec-utils
bind-pkcs11-utils
bind-dnssec-doc
net-dns/bind
net-dns/bind-tools

How to mitigate CVE-2022-2881

Install updates from vendor's website.

ISC BIND - addressed in versions 9.18.7, 9.19.5
HPE Moonshot 1500 Chassis Manager - update to 4.0-b43
bind9 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:9.11.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.18, 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2.11, 1:9.18.1-1ubuntu1.2
bind-export-libs - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15
python3-bind - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15, 9.16.23-11
bind-debugsource - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15, 9.16.23-11
bind-export-devel - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15
bind-libs-lite - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15
bind-chroot - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15, 9.16.23-11
bind-devel - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15, 9.16.23-11
bind-pkcs11-devel - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15, 9.16.23-11
bind-pkcs11 - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15, 9.16.23-11
bind-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15, 9.16.23-11
bind-libs - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15, 9.16.23-11
bind-utils - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15, 9.16.23-11
bind - addressed in versions 9.11.21-14, 9.11.21-15, 9.16.23-11
bind-license - update to 9.16.23-11
bind-pkcs11-libs - update to 9.16.23-11
bind-dnssec-utils - update to 9.16.23-11
bind-pkcs11-utils - update to 9.16.23-11
bind-dnssec-doc - update to 9.16.23-11
net-dns/bind - update to 9.16.33
net-dns/bind-tools - update to 9.16.33

External References

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