CVE-2023-2828

bind: named's configured cache size limit can be significantly exceeded

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · June 21, 2023

Updated · August 7, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in BIND. 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 exceed significantly.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE not specified