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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2018-5738 EUVD-2018-17507GHSA-cg2m-4gq8-j388

Some versions of BIND can improperly permit recursive query service to unauthorized clients

Published Jan 16, 2019 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by isc

Description

Change #4777 (introduced in October 2017) introduced an unforeseen issue in releases which were issued after that date, affecting which clients are permitted to make recursive queries to a BIND nameserver. The intended (and documented) behavior is that if an operator has not specified a value for the "allow-recursion" setting, it SHOULD default to one of the following: none, if "recursion no;" is set in named.conf; a value inherited from the "allow-query-cache" or "allow-query" settings IF "recursion yes;" (the default for that setting) AND match lists are explicitly set for "allow-query-cache" or "allow-query" (see the BIND9 Administrative Reference Manual section 6.2 for more details); or the intended default of "allow-recursion {localhost; localnets;};" if "recursion yes;" is in effect and no values are explicitly set for "allow-query-cache" or "allow-query". However, because of the regression introduced by change #4777, it is possible when "recursion yes;" is in effect and no match list values are provided for "allow-query-cache" or "allow-query" for the setting of "allow-recursion" to inherit a setting of all hosts from the "allow-query" setting default, improperly permitting recursion to all clients. Affects BIND 9.9.12, 9.10.7, 9.11.3, 9.12.0->9.12.1-P2, the development release 9.13.0, and also releases 9.9.12-S1, 9.10.7-S1, 9.11.3-S1, and 9.11.3-S2 from BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ISC BIND 9 9.9.12, 9.10.7, 9.11.3, 9.12.0->9.12.1-P2, the development release 9.13.0, and also releases 9.9.12-S1, 9.10.7-S1, 9.11.3-S1, and 9.11.3-S2 from BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition. —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 bind9 1:9.11.3+dfsg-2 —
Debian 13 bind9 1:9.11.3+dfsg-2 —
Debian 12 bind9 1:9.11.3+dfsg-2 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS bind9 1:9.11.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1 USN-3683-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.20 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.18 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.17 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.16 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.15 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.14 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.13 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.12 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.11 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.10 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.9 bind 9.12.2_p1-r0 —
Alpine v3.7 bind 9.11.5_p4-r0 —
Alpine v3.6 bind 9.11.5_p4-r0 —

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