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ISC BIND: Memory leak in ECDSA DNSSEC verification code (CVE-2022-38177)

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ISC BIND: Memory leak in ECDSA DNSSEC verification code (CVE-2022-38177)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/21/2022
Created
09/24/2022
Added
09/23/2022
Modified
03/24/2023

Description

By spoofing the target resolver with responses that have a malformed ECDSA signature, an attacker can trigger a small memory leak. It is possible to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources.

Solution(s)

  • upgrade-isc-bind-latest

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