CVE-2022-3736
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-25 21:39
Modified
2025-04-01 14:10
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
BIND 9 resolver can crash when stale cache and stale answers are enabled, option `stale-answer-client-timeout` is set to a positive integer, and the resolver receives an RRSIG query. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.12 through 9.16.36, 9.18.0 through 9.18.10, 9.19.0 through 9.19.8, and 9.16.12-S1 through 9.16.36-S1.
References
security-officer@isc.orghttps://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-3736Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-3736Vendor Advisory
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Version: 9.18.0   <
Version: 9.19.0   <
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