CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-3924
7.5 HIGH
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- 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
- https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-3924 Vendor Advisory
- https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-3924 Vendor Advisory