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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.151726
Category:Denial of Service
Title:ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2023-4408) - Windows
Summary:ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
The DNS message parsing code in named includes a section whose
computational complexity is overly high. It does not cause problems for typical DNS traffic, but
crafted queries and responses may cause excessive CPU load on the affected named instance by
exploiting this flaw. This issue affects both authoritative servers and recursive resolvers.

Vulnerability Impact:
By flooding the target server with queries exploiting this flaw
an attacker can significantly impair the server's performance, effectively denying legitimate
clients access to the DNS resolution service.

Affected Software/OS:
ISC BIND version 9.0.0 through 9.16.45, 9.18.0 through
9.18.21, 9.19.0 through 9.19.19, 9.9.3-S1 through 9.11.37-S1, 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.45-S1 and
9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.21-S1.

Solution:
Update to version 9.16.48, 9.18.24, 9.19.21, 9.16.48-S1,
9.18.24-S1 or later.

CVSS Score:
7.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2023-4408
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PNNHZSZPG2E7NBMBNYPGHCFI4V4XRWNQ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RGS7JN6FZXUSTC2XKQHH27574XOULYYJ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVRDSJVZKMCXKKPP6PNR62T7RWZ3YSDZ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZDZFMEKQTZ4L7RY46FCENWFB5MDT263R/
CVE-2023-4408
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-4408
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/02/13/1
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