Resource exhaustion in ISC BIND - CVE-2023-6516

 

Resource exhaustion in ISC BIND - CVE-2023-6516

Published: February 13, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU86379
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4 BT: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6516
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing specific recursive patterns. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack against the DNS resolver.


Affected software

ISC BIND
PowerStore 9000X
PowerStore 1000X
PowerStore 7000X
PowerStore 5000X
PowerStore 3000X
SmartFabric Storage Software
PowerStoreX OS
Amazon Linux AMI
Debian Linux
Oracle Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE Micro
SUSE Enterprise Storage
IBM i
IBM AIX
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems
Anolis OS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Slackware Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 LTSS
Server Applications Module
Basesystem Module
openSUSE Leap
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
Oracle Solaris
IBM VIOS
OpenShift Virtualization
OpenShift Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
libuv1
libuv1-debuginfo
libuv-debugsource
libuv-devel
bind-utils
libisc1606
libisccfg1600
libisccfg1600-debuginfo
bind-debuginfo
libdns1605-debuginfo
libisccc1600
libns1604-debuginfo
libirs1601-debuginfo
libirs1601
libbind9-1600
libdns1605
bind-debugsource
bind
bind-devel
bind-chrootenv
libbind9-1600-64bit
libdns1605-64bit
libisccfg1600-64bit
libisc1606-64bit
libirs1601-64bit
libisccc1600-64bit
bind-doc
libisc1606-debuginfo
python3-bind
libisccc1600-debuginfo
libirs-devel
libns1604
libbind9-1600-debuginfo
bind-utils-debuginfo
bind9.16 (Red Hat package)
bind9.16-chroot
python3-bind9.16
bind9.16
bind9.16-dnssec-utils
bind9.16-libs
bind9.16-utils
bind9.16-doc
bind9.16-license
bind9.16-devel
bind (Red Hat package) main
bind-pkcs11
bind-chroot
bind-libs
bind-pkcs11-devel
bind-pkcs11-utils
bind-dnssec-utils
bind-pkcs11-libs
bind-license
bind-dnssec-doc
bind9 (Ubuntu package)
bind9 (Debian package)
bind-dyndb-ldap (Red Hat package)
bind-dyndb-ldap
Storage Virtualize
PowerStore T
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Storage Resource Manager
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance
Juniper Junos Space
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR)
Azure Stack
IBM Observability with Instana

How to mitigate CVE-2023-6516

Install updates from vendor's website.

ISC BIND - addressed in versions 9.16.48, 9.16.48-S1
SmartFabric Storage Software - update to 1.4.3
OpenShift Virtualization - addressed in versions 4.14.5, 4.14.6
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - update to 4.15.10
Storage Virtualize - addressed in versions 8.7.0.3, 8.7.2.0
Juniper Junos Space - update to 24.1R2
libuv1 - update to 1.18.0-150000.3.2.1
libuv1-debuginfo - update to 1.18.0-150000.3.2.1
libuv-debugsource - update to 1.18.0-150000.3.2.1
libuv-devel - update to 1.18.0-150000.3.2.1
OpenShift Service Mesh - update to 2.5.2
PowerStoreX OS - update to 3.2.1.5-2424458
PowerStore T - update to 3.6.1.4-2413340
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.6.0
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR) - update to 5.0.1.0
Storage Resource Manager - update to 5.0.1.0
bind-utils - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1, 9.16.48-150400.5.40.1, 9.16.48-150500.8.16.1
libisc1606 - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libisccfg1600 - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libisccfg1600-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
bind-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1, 9.16.48-150400.5.40.1, 9.16.48-150500.8.16.1
libdns1605-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libisccc1600 - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libns1604-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libirs1601-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libirs1601 - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libbind9-1600 - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libdns1605 - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
bind-debugsource - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1, 9.16.48-150400.5.40.1, 9.16.48-150500.8.16.1
bind - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1, 9.16.48-150400.5.40.1, 9.16.48-150500.8.16.1
bind-devel - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
bind-chrootenv - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libbind9-1600-64bit - update to 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2
libdns1605-64bit - update to 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2
libisccfg1600-64bit - update to 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2
libisc1606-64bit - update to 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2
libirs1601-64bit - update to 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2
libisccc1600-64bit - update to 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2
bind-doc - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1, 9.16.48-150400.5.40.1, 9.16.48-150500.8.16.1
libisc1606-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
python3-bind - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1, 9.16.48-150400.5.40.1, 9.16.48-150500.8.16.1
libisccc1600-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libirs-devel - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libns1604 - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
libbind9-1600-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1
bind-utils-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.16.6-150000.12.74.2, 9.16.6-150300.22.44.1, 9.16.48-150400.5.40.1, 9.16.48-150500.8.16.1
bind9.16 (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 9.16.23-0.7.el8_6.5, 9.16.23-0.14.el8_8.4, 9.16.23-0.16.el8_9.2
bind9.16-chroot - update to 9.16.23-0.14
python3-bind9.16 - update to 9.16.23-0.14
bind9.16 - update to 9.16.23-0.14
bind9.16-dnssec-utils - update to 9.16.23-0.14
bind9.16-libs - update to 9.16.23-0.14
bind9.16-utils - update to 9.16.23-0.14
bind9.16-doc - update to 9.16.23-0.14
bind9.16-license - update to 9.16.23-0.14
bind9.16-devel - update to 9.16.23-0.14
bind (Red Hat package) main - addressed in versions 9.16.23-1.el9_0.5, 9.16.23-11.el9_2.4, 9.16.23-14.el9_3.4, 9.16.23-18.el9_4.1
bind-utils - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-pkcs11 - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-chroot - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-libs - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-devel - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-pkcs11-devel - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-pkcs11-utils - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
python3-bind - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-dnssec-utils - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-pkcs11-libs - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-debugsource - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-license - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind-dnssec-doc - addressed in versions 9.16.23-21, 9.16.23-22
bind - update to 9.16.48
bind9 (Ubuntu package) - update to 1:9.16.48-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
bind - update to 9.16.48-1
bind9 (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1:9.16.48-1, 1:9.18.24-1
bind - addressed in versions 9.18.24-1.fc38, 9.18.24-1.fc39, 9.18.24-1.fc41
Azure Stack - update to 10.2402
Oracle Solaris - addressed in versions 11.3 ESU 36.33, 11.4 SRU 68
bind-dyndb-ldap (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 11.9-7.el9_0.1, 11.9-8.el9_2.2, 11.9-8.el9_3.3
bind-dyndb-ldap - addressed in versions 11.10-23.fc38, 11.10-24.fc39, 11.10-27.fc41
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance - update to 13.2.0.2.31
IBM Observability with Instana - update to 272

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