USN-6183-1

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    USN-6183-1

    Published: 21 Jun 2023Last Modified: 27 Apr 2026

    Summary: bind9 vulnerabilities

    Details: Shoham Danino, Anat Bremler-Barr, Yehuda Afek, and Yuval Shavitt discovered that Bind incorrectly handled the cache size limit. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to consume memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-2828) It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled the recursive-clients quota. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-2911)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6183-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-2828, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-2911

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bind9

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/bind9@1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2.15?arch=source&distro=focal

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2.15

    Affected versions

    1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1ubuntu2
    1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1ubuntu3
    1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1ubuntu4
    1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1ubuntu5
    1:9.11.14+dfsg-1ubuntu1
    1:9.11.14+dfsg-3ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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