Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-3924: This issue can affect BIND 9 resolvers with `stale-answer-enable yes;` that also make use of the option `stale-answer-client-timeout`, configured with a value greater than zero. If the resolver receives many queries that require recursion, there will be a corresponding increase in the number of clients that are waiting for recursion to complete. If there are sufficient clients already waiting when a new client query is received so that it is necessary to SERVFAIL the longest waiting client (see BIND 9 ARM `recursive-clients` limit and soft quota), then it is possible for a race to occur between providing a stale answer to this older client and sending an early timeout SERVFAIL, which may cause an assertion failure. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.12 through 9.16.36, 9.18.0 through 9.18.10, 9.19.0 through 9.19.8, and 9.16.12-S1 through 9.16.36-S1. CVE-2022-38178: By spoofing the target resolver with responses that have a malformed EdDSA 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. CVE-2022-38177: 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. CVE-2022-3736: A flaw was found in Bind, where a resolver crash is possible. When stale cache and stale answers are enabled, the option stale-answer-client-timeout is set to a positive integer, and the resolver receives an RRSIG query. CVE-2022-3488: Processing of repeated responses to the same query, where both responses contain ECS pseudo-options, but where the first is broken in some way, can cause BIND to exit with an assertion failure. 'Broken' in this context is anything that would cause the resolver to reject the query response, such as a mismatch between query and answer name. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.4-S1 through 9.11.37-S1 and 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.36-S1. CVE-2022-3094: Sending a flood of dynamic DNS updates may cause `named` to allocate large amounts of memory. This, in turn, may cause `named` to exit due to a lack of free memory. We are not aware of any cases where this has been exploited. Memory is allocated prior to the checking of access permissions (ACLs) and is retained during the processing of a dynamic update from a client whose access credentials are accepted. Memory allocated to clients that are not permitted to send updates is released immediately upon rejection. The scope of this vulnerability is limited therefore to trusted clients who are permitted to make dynamic zone changes. If a dynamic update is REFUSED, memory will be released again very quickly. Therefore it is only likely to be possible to degrade or stop `named` by sending a flood of unaccepted dynamic updates comparable in magnitude to a query flood intended to achieve the same detrimental outcome. BIND 9.11 and earlier branches are also affected, but through exhaustion of internal resources rather than memory constraints. This may reduce performance but should not be a significant problem for most servers. Therefore we don't intend to address this for BIND versions prior to BIND 9.16. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.0 through 9.16.36, 9.18.0 through 9.18.10, 9.19.0 through 9.19.8, and 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.36-S1. CVE-2022-3080: A flaw was found in the Bind package, where the resolver can crash when stale cache and stale answers are enabled, option stale-answer-client-timeout is set to 0 and there is a stale CNAME in the cache for an incoming query. By sending specific queries to the resolver, an attacker can cause named to crash. CVE-2022-2795: By flooding the target resolver with queries exploiting this flaw an attacker can significantly impair the resolver's performance, effectively denying legitimate clients access to the DNS resolution service.
Fixed packages 29
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
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| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-chroot | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-debuginfo | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-debugsource | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-devel | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-dlz-filesystem | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-dlz-filesystem-debuginfo | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-dlz-ldap | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-dlz-ldap-debuginfo | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-dlz-mysql | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-dlz-mysql-debuginfo | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-dlz-sqlite3 | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-dlz-sqlite3-debuginfo | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-dnssec-doc | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-dnssec-utils | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-dnssec-utils-debuginfo | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-libs | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-libs-debuginfo | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-license | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-pkcs11 | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-pkcs11-debuginfo | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-pkcs11-devel | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-pkcs11-libs | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-pkcs11-libs-debuginfo | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-pkcs11-utils | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-pkcs11-utils-debuginfo | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-utils | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | bind-utils-debuginfo | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
| Amazon Linux · 2023 | python3-bind | 32:9.16.38-1.amzn2023 |
Vulnerabilities 8
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High 7.5
BIND 9 resolvers configured to answer from stale cache with zero stale-answer-client-timeout may terminate unexpectedly
By sending specific queries to the resolver, an attacker can cause named to crash.
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High 7.5CVE-2022-3094 EPSS 13%
An UPDATE message flood may cause named to exhaust all available memory
Sending a flood of dynamic DNS updates may cause `named` to allocate large amounts of memory. This, in turn, may cause `named` to exit due to a lack of free memory. We are not aware of any cases where this has been exploited. Memory is allocated prior to the …
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High 7.5CVE-2022-3488 EPSS 19%
named may terminate unexpectedly when processing ECS options in repeated responses to iterative queries
Processing of repeated responses to the same query, where both responses contain ECS pseudo-options, but where the first is broken in some way, can cause BIND to exit with an assertion failure. 'Broken' in this context is anything that would cause the resolve…
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High 7.5CVE-2022-3736 EPSS 48%
named configured to answer from stale cache may terminate unexpectedly while processing RRSIG queries
BIND 9 resolver can crash when stale cache and stale answers are enabled, option `stale-answer-client-timeout` is set to a positive integer, and the resolver receives an RRSIG query. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.12 through 9.16.36, 9.18.0 through 9…
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High 7.5
Memory leak in ECDSA DNSSEC verification code
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.
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High 7.5
Memory leaks in EdDSA DNSSEC verification code
By spoofing the target resolver with responses that have a malformed EdDSA 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.
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High 7.5CVE-2022-3924 EPSS 16%
named configured to answer from stale cache may terminate unexpectedly at recursive-clients soft quota
This issue can affect BIND 9 resolvers with `stale-answer-enable yes;` that also make use of the option `stale-answer-client-timeout`, configured with a value greater than zero. If the resolver receives many queries that require recursion, there will be a cor…
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Medium 5.3
Processing large delegations may severely degrade resolver performance
By flooding the target resolver with queries exploiting this flaw an attacker can significantly impair the resolver's performance, effectively denying legitimate clients access to the DNS resolution service.
References
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web
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-2795.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-3080.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-3094.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-3488.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-3736.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-38177.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-38178.html
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https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-3924.html