By design, BIND is intended to limit the number of TCP clients that can be connected at any given time. The number of allowed connections is a tunable parameter which, if unset, defaults to a conservative value for most servers. Unfortunately, the code which was intended to limit the number of simultaneous connections contained an error which could be exploited to grow the number of simultaneous connections beyond this limit. Versions affected: BIND 9.9.0 -> 9.10.8-P1, 9.11.0 -> 9.11.6, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.4, 9.14.0. BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition versions 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.5-S3, and 9.11.5-S5. Versions 9.13.0 -> 9.13.7 of the 9.13 development branch are also affected. Versions prior to BIND 9.9.0 have not been evaluated for vulnerability to CVE-2018-5743.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1859-1 bind9 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4440-1 bind9 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-17512 By design, BIND is intended to limit the number of TCP clients that can be connected at any given time. The number of allowed connections is a tunable parameter which, if unset, defaults to a conservative value for most servers. Unfortunately, the code which was intended to limit the number of simultaneous connections contained an error which could be exploited to grow the number of simultaneous connections beyond this limit. Versions affected: BIND 9.9.0 -> 9.10.8-P1, 9.11.0 -> 9.11.6, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.4, 9.14.0. BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition versions 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.5-S3, and 9.11.5-S5. Versions 9.13.0 -> 9.13.7 of the 9.13 development branch are also affected. Versions prior to BIND 9.9.0 have not been evaluated for vulnerability to CVE-2018-5743.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3956-1 Bind vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3956-2 Bind vulnerability
Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to a version of BIND containing a fix for the ineffective limits. + BIND 9.11.6-P1 + BIND 9.12.4-P1 + BIND 9.14.1 BIND Supported Preview Edition is a special feature preview branch of BIND provided to eligible ISC support customers. + BIND 9.11.5-S6 + BIND 9.11.6-S1


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: isc

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T02:26:38.493Z

Reserved: 2018-01-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-5743

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-10-09T16:15:13.763

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:09:17.967

Link: CVE-2018-5743

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2019-04-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-5743 - Bugzilla

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