CVE-2023-3341 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting multiple versions of ISC BIND 9, including those distributed by Debian and Fedora. The flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash the named daemon by sending specially crafted control channel messages, exploiting a recursive parsing vulnerability that exhausts stack memory. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without requiring any authentication. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 9.2.0, < 9.16.44CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.18.0, < 9.18.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.19.0, < 9.19.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
9.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.3:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:* | ||
9.9.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.12:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVE-2023-3341
Jun 11, 2024bind: stack exhaustion in control channel code may lead to DoS
Sep 20, 2023A stack exhaustion flaw in control channel code may cause named to terminate unexpectedly
Sep 12, 2023A stack exhaustion flaw in control channel code may cause named to terminate unexpectedly