USN-6183-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2023-2828)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-06-21 17:11 – Updated: 2026-04-27 14:11 – Source website
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bind9 vulnerabilities
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Shoham Danino, Anat Bremler-Barr, Yehuda Afek, and Yuval Shavitt discovered that Bind incorrectly handled the cache size limit. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to consume memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-2828)

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled the recursive-clients quota. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-2911)

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