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ISC BIND: A flood of DNS messages over TCP may make the server unstable (CVE-2024-0760)

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ISC BIND: A flood of DNS messages over TCP may make the server unstable (CVE-2024-0760)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/24/2024
Created
07/26/2024
Added
07/24/2024
Modified
07/24/2024

Description

A malicious client can send many DNS messages over TCP, potentially causing the server to become unstable while the attack is in progress. The server may recover after the attack ceases. Use of ACLs will not mitigate the attack.

Solution(s)

  • upgrade-isc-bind-latest

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