USN-6183-1: Bind vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 23.04
• Ubuntu 22.10
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Packages

• bind9 - Internet Domain Name Server

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)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 23.04

• bind9 - 1:9.18.12-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 22.10

• bind9 - 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.10.2

Ubuntu 22.04

• bind9 - 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.2

Ubuntu 20.04

• bind9 - 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2.15

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2023-2911
• CVE-2023-2828

Related notices

• USN-6183-2: libisccc-export140-udeb, libbind9-90, libisc-export160, libbind9-160, bind9-doc, libirs160, libisc95, libisccc90, libirs141, libbind-export-dev, libisccc160, libisccfg140, libisc160, lwresd, libisccfg-export140, libdns162, liblwres141, bind9utils, bind9, libisccfg-export160, libisccc140, libisccfg90, libbind-dev, libbind9-140, libirs-export160, libisccc-export140, liblwres90, liblwres160, libdns100, libdns-export1100, libisc-export169, libirs-export141, libdns-export162, libisc169, bind9-host, dnsutils, libisccfg160, libisccc-export160, libdns1100, host