CVE-2023-3341
A stack exhaustion flaw in control channel code may cause named to terminate unexpectedly
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The code that processes control channel messages sent to `named` calls certain functions recursively during packet parsing. Recursion depth is only limited by the maximum accepted packet size; depending on the environment, this may cause the packet-parsing code to run out of available stack memory, causing `named` to terminate unexpectedly. Since each incoming control channel message is fully parsed before its contents are authenticated, exploiting this flaw does not require the attacker to hold a valid RNDC key; only network access to the control channel's configured TCP port is necessary. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.2.0 through 9.16.43, 9.18.0 through 9.18.18, 9.19.0 through 9.19.16, 9.9.3-S1 through 9.16.43-S1, and 9.18.0-S1 through 9.18.18-S1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By isc
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| iscCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
What to do
Solution: Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of BIND 9: 9.16.44, 9.18.19, 9.19.17, 9.16.44-S1, or 9.18.19-S1.
Workaround: By default, `named` only allows control-channel connections over the loopback interface, making this attack impossible to carry out over the network. When enabling remote access to the control channel's configured TCP port, care should be taken to limit such access to trusted IP ranges on the network level, effectively preventing unauthorized parties from carrying out the attack described in this advisory.
Exploitation: We are not aware of any active exploits.
References
References8
- CVE-2023-3341 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/20/2 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5504 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IPJLLTJCSDJJII7IIZPLTBQNWP7MZH7F/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/U35OARLQCPMVCBBPHWBXY5M6XJLD2TZ5/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231013-0003/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VSK5V4W4OHPM3JTJGWAQD6CZW7SFD75B/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00021.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-44009 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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