oss-security - ISC has disclosed six vulnerabilities in BIND 9 (CVE-2023-4408, CVE-2023-5517, CVE-2023-5679, CVE-2023-6516, CVE-2023-50387, CVE-2023-50868)

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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:39:32 +0100
From: Michał Kępień <michal@....org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: ISC has disclosed six vulnerabilities in BIND 9 (CVE-2023-4408,
 CVE-2023-5517, CVE-2023-5679, CVE-2023-6516, CVE-2023-50387, CVE-2023-50868)

On 13 February 2024 we (Internet Systems Consortium) disclosed six vulnerabilities affecting our BIND 9 software:

- CVE-2023-4408:        Parsing large DNS messages may cause excessive CPU load https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-4408
- CVE-2023-5517:        Querying RFC 1918 reverse zones may cause an assertion failure when "nxdomain-redirect" is enabled https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-5517
- CVE-2023-5679:        Enabling both DNS64 and serve-stale may cause an assertion failure during recursive resolution https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-5679
- CVE-2023-6516:        Specific recursive query patterns may lead to an out-of-memory condition https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-6516
- CVE-2023-50387:       KeyTrap - Extreme CPU consumption in DNSSEC validator https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-50387
- CVE-2023-50868:       Preparing an NSEC3 closest encloser proof can exhaust CPU resources https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-50868

New versions of BIND 9 are available from https://www.isc.org/downloads

Operators and package maintainers who prefer to apply patches selectively can find individual vulnerability-specific patches in the "patches" subdirectory of each published release directory:

- https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.16.48/patches/
- https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.18.24/patches/
- https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.19.21/patches/

With the public announcement of these vulnerabilities, the embargo period is ended and any updated software packages that have been prepared may be released.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Kępień

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