CVE-2022-38177

Memory leak in ECDSA DNSSEC verification code

HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 3.29 % · percentile 88 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-09-21 10:15 UTC
Updated: 2025-05-28 15:23 UTC
Assigner: isc
NVD status: Modified

Description

By spoofing the target resolver with responses that have a malformed ECDSA 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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	isc
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · security-officer@isc.org (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-40773
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-38177

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0120 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0051 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Juniper · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-848 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Bind · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-1059 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-1025 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans IBM QRadar · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* ≥ 9.8.4 ≤ 9.16.32
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.3:s1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.3:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.12:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.13:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.10.5:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.10.7:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.3:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.5:s3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.5:s3:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.5:s5:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.5:s6:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.6:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.7:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.8:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.12:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.14-s1:*:*:*:preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.19-s1:*:*:*:preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.21:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.27:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.29:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.35:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.11.37:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.16.8:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.16.11:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.16.13:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.16.21:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.16.32:s1:*:*:supported_preview:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:active_iq_unified_manager:-:*:*:*:*:vmware_vsphere:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
ISC · BIND9	affected Open Source Branches 9.8 through 9.16 9.8.4 through versions before 9.16.33 ; affected Supported Preview Branches 9.9-S through 9.11-S 9.9.4-S1 through versions up to and including 9.11.37-S1 ; affected Supported Preview Branch 9.16-S 9.16.8-S1 through versions before 9.16.33-S1

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD