CVE-2018-5743

Limiting simultaneous TCP clients was ineffective

Published Oct 9, 2019 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 6.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

Upgrade to a version of BIND containing a fix for the ineffective limits. + BIND 9.11.6-P1 + BIND 9.12.4-P1 + BIND 9.14.1 BIND Supported Preview Edition is a special feature preview branch of BIND provided to eligible ISC support customers. + BIND 9.11.5-S6 + BIND 9.11.6-S1

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1859-1 bind9 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4440-1 bind9 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-17512 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3956-1 Bind vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3956-2 Bind vulnerability
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