CVE-2022-2906

Published: Sep 21, 2022

Modified: May 28, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
ISC	BIND9	affected `Open Source Branch 9.18 9.18.0 through versions before 9.18.7` affected `Development Branch 9.19 9.19.0 through versions before 9.19.5`

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2022-2906

[oss-security] 20220921 ISC has disclosed six vulnerabilities in BIND (CVE-2022-2795, CVE-2022-2881, CVE-2022-2906, CVE-2022-3080, CVE-2022-38177, CVE-2022-38178)

mailing-list

GLSA-202210-25

vendor-advisory

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CVE-2022-2906

Description

Affected Products

CVSS v3.1 Details

References