CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-3924

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-01-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-01-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-617

Description

This issue can affect BIND 9 resolvers with `stale-answer-enable yes;` that also make use of the option `stale-answer-client-timeout`, configured with a value greater than zero. If the resolver receives many queries that require recursion, there will be a corresponding increase in the number of clients that are waiting for recursion to complete. If there are sufficient clients already waiting when a new client query is received so that it is necessary to SERVFAIL the longest waiting client (see BIND 9 ARM `recursive-clients` limit and soft quota), then it is possible for a race to occur between providing a stale answer to this older client and sending an early timeout SERVFAIL, which may cause an assertion failure. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.12 through 9.16.36, 9.18.0 through 9.18.10, 9.19.0 through 9.19.8, and 9.16.12-S1 through 9.16.36-S1.

Affected configurations

• isc bind (>= 9.16.12 < 9.16.37) • isc bind (>= 9.18.0 < 9.18.11) • isc bind (>= 9.19.0 < 9.19.9) • isc bind 9.16.12 • isc bind 9.16.13 • isc bind 9.16.14 • isc bind 9.16.21 • isc bind 9.16.32 • isc bind 9.16.36

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness

References