Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-550
Advisory Release Date: 2024-02-29 10:29 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-03-05 12:00 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
The DNS message parsing code in `named` includes a section whose computational complexity is overly high. It does not cause problems for typical DNS traffic, but crafted queries and responses may cause excessive CPU load on the affected `named` instance by exploiting this flaw. This issue affects both authoritative servers and recursive resolvers.
This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.0.0 through 9.16.45, 9.18.0 through 9.18.21, 9.19.0 through 9.19.19, 9.9.3-S1 through 9.11.37-S1, 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.45-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.21-S1. (CVE-2023-4408)
Certain DNSSEC aspects of the DNS protocol (in RFC 4035 and related RFCs) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via one or more DNSSEC responses when there is a zone with many DNSKEY and RRSIG records, aka the "KeyTrap" issue. The protocol specification implies that an algorithm must evaluate all combinations of DNSKEY and RRSIG records. (CVE-2023-50387)
The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance is skipped) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for SHA-1 computations) via DNSSEC responses in a random subdomain attack, aka the "NSEC3" issue. The RFC 5155 specification implies that an algorithm must perform thousands of iterations of a hash function in certain situations. (CVE-2023-50868)
A flaw in query-handling code can cause `named` to exit prematurely with an assertion failure when:
- `nxdomain-redirect <domain>;` is configured, and
- the resolver receives a PTR query for an RFC 1918 address that would normally result in an authoritative NXDOMAIN response.
This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.12.0 through 9.16.45, 9.18.0 through 9.18.21, 9.19.0 through 9.19.19, 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.45-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.21-S1. (CVE-2023-5517)
A bad interaction between DNS64 and serve-stale may cause `named` to crash with an assertion failure during recursive resolution, when both of these features are enabled.
This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.12 through 9.16.45, 9.18.0 through 9.18.21, 9.19.0 through 9.19.19, 9.16.12-S1 through 9.16.45-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.21-S1. (CVE-2023-5679)
To keep its cache database efficient, `named` running as a recursive resolver occasionally attempts to clean up the database. It uses several methods, including some that are asynchronous: a small chunk of memory pointing to the cache element that can be cleaned up is first allocated and then queued for later processing. It was discovered that if the resolver is continuously processing query patterns triggering this type of cache-database maintenance, `named` may not be able to handle the cleanup events in a timely manner. This in turn enables the list of queued cleanup events to grow infinitely large over time, allowing the configured `max-cache-size` limit to be significantly exceeded.
This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.0 through 9.16.45 and 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.45-S1. (CVE-2023-6516)
Affected Packages:
bind
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update bind --releasever 2023.3.20240304 to update your system.
aarch64:
bind-libs-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-dlz-ldap-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-pkcs11-libs-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-dlz-ldap-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-pkcs11-utils-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-utils-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-pkcs11-devel-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-libs-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-dlz-filesystem-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-dlz-mysql-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-pkcs11-libs-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-utils-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-dlz-mysql-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-dnssec-utils-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-dnssec-utils-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-debugsource-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-devel-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-dlz-sqlite3-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-dlz-sqlite3-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-pkcs11-utils-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-pkcs11-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-pkcs11-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-chroot-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
bind-dlz-filesystem-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
noarch:
bind-dnssec-doc-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
python3-bind-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
bind-license-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
bind-doc-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.noarch
src:
bind-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.src
x86_64:
bind-libs-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-libs-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-dlz-sqlite3-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-pkcs11-libs-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-pkcs11-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-chroot-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-dlz-mysql-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-dlz-filesystem-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-dlz-sqlite3-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-dlz-ldap-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-dlz-mysql-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-utils-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-utils-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-pkcs11-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-dnssec-utils-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-pkcs11-utils-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-devel-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-debugsource-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-dnssec-utils-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-dlz-filesystem-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-pkcs11-utils-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-pkcs11-devel-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-dlz-ldap-debuginfo-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
bind-pkcs11-libs-9.16.48-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64