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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:38:28 +0000
From: ISC Security Officer <security-officer@isc.org>

CVE: CVE-2022-0396

Document version: 1.0

Posting date: 16 March 2022

Program impacted: BIND

Versions affected: BIND 9.16.11 -> 9.16.26, 917.0 -> 9.18.0 and versions
9.16.11-S1 -> 9.16.26-S1 of the BIND Supported Preview Edition.

Severity: Medium

Exploitable: Remotely

Description:

ISC recently discovered an issue in BIND that allows TCP connection slots
to be consumed for an indefinite time frame via a specifically crafted TCP
stream sent from a client. This issue is present in BIND 9.16.11 to
9.16.26 (including S editions), and 9.18.0.

This issue can only be triggered on BIND servers which have
keep-response-order enabled, which is not the default configuration. The
keep-response-order option is an ACL block, and as such, any hosts
specified within it will be able to trigger this issue on affected
versions.

Impact:

Specifically crafted TCP streams can cause connections to BIND to remain
in CLOSE_WAIT status for an indefinite period of time, even after the
client has terminated the connection.

CVSS Score: 4.9

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

For more information on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System and to
obtain your specific environmental score please visit:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator?vector=AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/
UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:F/RL:O/RC:C&version=3.1.

Workarounds:

To mitigate this issue in all affected versions of BIND, use the default
setting of keep-response-order { none; }.

Active exploits:

We are not aware of any active exploits.

Solution:

Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current
version of BIND:

     9.16.27
     9.18.1

BIND Supported Preview Edition is a special feature-preview branch of BIND
provided to eligible ISC support customers.

     9.16.27-S1

Document revision history:

1.0 Early Notification, 9 March 2022

Related documents:

See CVE-2019-6477: TCP-pipelined queries can bypass tcp-clients limit for
more information regarding CVE-2019-6477, in which ISC recommended setting
keep-response-order to any to work around a previous issue where BIND was
not respecting the TCP client limit.

See our BIND 9 Security Vulnerability Matrix for a complete listing of
security vulnerabilities and versions affected.

Do you still have questions? Questions regarding this advisory should go
to security-officer@isc.org. To report a new issue, please encrypt your
message using security-officer@isc.org's PGP key which can be found here:
https://www.isc.org/pgpkey/. If you are unable to use encrypted email, you
may also report new issues at: https://www.isc.org/reportbug/.

Note:

ISC patches only currently supported versions. When possible we indicate
EOL versions affected. (For current information on which versions are
actively supported, please see https://www.isc.org/download/.)

ISC Security Vulnerability Disclosure Policy:

Details of our current security advisory policy and practice can be found
in the ISC Software Defect and Security Vulnerability Disclosure Policy at
https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00861.

The Knowledgebase article https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-0396 is the
complete and official security advisory document.

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