ISC BIND up to 9.14.0 Connection allocation of resources

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in ISC BIND up to 9.10.8-P1/9.11.6/9.12.4/9.13.7/9.14.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Connection Handler. Such manipulation leads to allocation of resources. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2018-5743. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in ISC BIND up to 9.10.8-P1/9.11.6/9.12.4/9.13.7/9.14.0 (Domain Name Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Connection Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

By design, BIND is intended to limit the number of TCP clients that can be connected at any given time. The number of allowed connections is a tunable parameter which, if unset, defaults to a conservative value for most servers. Unfortunately, the code which was intended to limit the number of simultaneous connections contained an error which could be exploited to grow the number of simultaneous connections beyond this limit. Versions affected: BIND 9.9.0 -> 9.10.8-P1, 9.11.0 -> 9.11.6, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.4, 9.14.0. BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition versions 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.5-S3, and 9.11.5-S5. Versions 9.13.0 -> 9.13.7 of the 9.13 development branch are also affected. Versions prior to BIND 9.9.0 have not been evaluated for vulnerability to CVE-2018-5743.

The bug was discovered 04/24/2019. The weakness was presented 10/09/2019 (Website). The advisory is available at kb.isc.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-5743 since 01/17/2018. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 168 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 176878 (Debian Security Update for bind9 (DSA 4440-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Domain Name Software

Vendor

• ISC

Name

• BIND

Version

• 9.0
• 9.1
• 9.2
• 9.3
• 9.4
• 9.5
• 9.6
• 9.7
• 9.8
• 9.9
• 9.10
• 9.10.8-P1
• 9.11
• 9.11.0
• 9.11.1
• 9.11.2
• 9.11.3
• 9.11.4
• 9.11.5
• 9.11.6
• 9.12
• 9.12.0
• 9.12.1
• 9.12.2
• 9.12.3
• 9.12.4
• 9.13
• 9.13.0
• 9.13.1
• 9.13.2
• 9.13.3
• 9.13.4
• 9.13.5
• 9.13.6
• 9.13.7
• 9.14.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.isc.org/

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