Every `named` instance configured to run as a recursive resolver maintains a cache database holding the responses to the queries it has recently sent to authoritative servers. The size limit for that cache database can be configured using the `max-cache-size` statement in the configuration file; it defaults to 90% of the total amount of memory available on the host. When the size of the cache reaches 7/8 of the configured limit, a cache-cleaning algorithm starts to remove expired and/or least-recently used RRsets from the cache, to keep memory use below the configured limit. It has been discovered that the effectiveness of the cache-cleaning algorithm used in `named` can be severely diminished by querying the resolver for specific RRsets in a certain order, effectively allowing the configured `max-cache-size` limit to be significantly exceeded. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.16.41, 9.18.0 through 9.18.15, 9.19.0 through 9.19.13, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.16.41-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.15-S1.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: isc

Published: 2023-06-21T16:26:07.096Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:33:05.796Z

Reserved: 2023-05-22T07:57:41.362Z

Link: CVE-2023-2828

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-06-21T17:15:47.703

Modified: 2023-07-21T19:19:52.887

Link: CVE-2023-2828

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2023-06-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-2828 - Bugzilla