CVE-2022-2906

HIGH

BIND 9.18.0-9.18.6 - Denial of Service via Memory Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An attacker can leverage this flaw to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources. Upon restart the attacker would have to begin again, but nevertheless there is the potential to deny service.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/21/3
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-25
Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-2906

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0086
EPSS Percentile 75.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (1)
isc/bind 9.18.0 - 9.18.7
Published Sep 21, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026