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01 Record

CVE-2023-2911

Exceeding the recursive-clients quota may cause named to terminate unexpectedly when stale-answer-client-timeout is set to 0

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: isc
CNA base score7.5 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

02 Description

Exceeding the recursive-clients quota may cause named to terminate unexpectedly when stale-answer-client-timeout is set to 0

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
SSVC decision
  • ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
  • AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
  • Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
CISA publishes the decision points, not a final SSVC decision. The decision also depends on mission and well-being impact, which is a property of your deployment rather than of the vulnerability.
EPSS probability
2.43% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 84.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-24.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2023-06-21 16:26Z3 YR AGO
Last updated
2025-02-13 16:49Z1 YR AGO
Reserved
2023-05-26
Assigning CNA
isc
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 7.5)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
  • CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowVariant
Data version
5.1
Document digest
7b4b4b9aa053a229955f99e59abbceaf4fe62356118e6cf7ed8232d6ce1afb65

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
ISCBIND 99.16.33 to 9.16.41, 9.18.7 to 9.18.15, 9.16.33-S1 to 9.16.41-S1, 9.18.11-S1 to 9.18.15-S1—

06 References

07 Remediation

Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of BIND 9: 9.16.42, 9.18.16, 9.16.42-S1, or 9.18.16-S1.

08 Fixed in

Debian 12

  • bind9
    Fixed in 1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 13

  • bind9
    Fixed in 1:9.18.16-1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 14

  • bind9
    Fixed in 1:9.18.16-1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

  • bind9
    Fixed in 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2.15

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

  • bind9
    Fixed in 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.2

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.