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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2023-2828

named's configured cache size limit can be significantly exceeded

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Published
Updated
Assigning organization
isc

Description

Every `named` instance configured to run as a recursive resolver maintains a cache database holding the responses to the queries it has recently sent to authoritative servers. The size limit for that cache database can be configured using the `max-cache-size` statement in the configuration file; it defaults to 90% of the total amount of memory available on the host. When the size of the cache reaches 7/8 of the configured limit, a cache-cleaning algorithm starts to remove expired and/or least-recently used RRsets from the cache, to keep memory use below the configured limit. It has been discovered that the effectiveness of the cache-cleaning algorithm used in `named` can be severely diminished by querying the resolver for specific RRsets in a certain order, effectively allowing the configured `max-cache-size` limit to be significantly exceeded. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.16.41, 9.18.0 through 9.18.15, 9.19.0 through 9.19.13, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.16.41-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.15-S1.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

ISC BIND 9

Default version status: unaffected

  • 9.11.0 to ≤ 9.16.41affected
  • 9.18.0 to ≤ 9.18.15affected
  • 9.19.0 to ≤ 9.19.13affected
  • 9.11.3-S1 to ≤ 9.16.41-S1affected
  • 9.18.11-S1 to ≤ 9.18.15-S1affected

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