CVE-2022-38178

HIGH

named - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

Description

By spoofing the target resolver with responses that have a malformed EdDSA signature, an attacker can trigger a small memory leak. It is possible to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources.

References (9)

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/21/3

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-38178

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00007.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-25

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221228-0009/

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5235

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CV4GQWBPF7Y52J2FA24U6UMHQAOXZEF7/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRHB6J4Z7BKH4HPEKG5D35QGRD6ANNMT/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZJQNUASODNVAWZV6STKG5SD6XIJ446S/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0187

EPSS Percentile 82.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (28)

isc/bind < 9.9.13

isc/bind

... and 13 more

Timeline

Published Sep 21, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026