CVE-2023-5679

Enabling both DNS64 and serve-stale may cause an assertion failure during recursive resolution

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.5
EPSS
EPSS 1.29 % · percentile 70 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
isc
NVD status
Modified

Description

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.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hisc
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · security-officer@isc.org (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
ISC · BIND 9affected 9.16.12 ≤ 9.16.45 ; affected 9.18.0 ≤ 9.18.21 ; affected 9.19.0 ≤ 9.19.19 ; affected 9.16.12-S1 ≤ 9.16.45-S1 ; affected 9.18.11-S1 ≤ 9.18.21-S1

References

Sources

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