ALAS-2023-1789

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-2828  

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. (CVE-2023-2828)

ALAS-2023-1789


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1789
Advisory Release Date: 2023-07-19 22:14 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-07-25 23:24 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2023-2828)


Affected Packages:

bind


Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.i686
    bind-utils-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.i686
    bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.i686
    bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.i686
    bind-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.i686
    bind-devel-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.i686
    bind-libs-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.i686

src:
    bind-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.x86_64
    bind-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.x86_64
    bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.x86_64
    bind-libs-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.x86_64
    bind-utils-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.x86_64
    bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.x86_64
    bind-devel-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.90.amzn1.x86_64