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Security Bulletin: ISC BIND on IBM i is vulnerable to denial of service due to a stack exhaustion flaw (CVE-2023-3341)

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Summary

IBM i Domain Name System (DNS) uses ISC BIND. ISC BIND on IBM i is vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a stack exhaustion flaw as seen in the vulnerability details section. IBM i has addressed the vulnerability in ISC BIND with a fix as described in the remediation/fixes section.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2023-3341
DESCRIPTION:   ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack exhaustion flaw in control channel code. By sending a specially crafted message over the control channel, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause named to terminate.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266515 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM i7.4
IBM i7.2
IBM i7.3
IBM i7.5

Remediation/Fixes

The issue can be fixed by applying a PTF to IBM i.  IBM i releases 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, and 7.2 will be fixed.
The IBM i PTF number for 5770-SS1 Option 31 contains the fix for the vulnerability.
IBM i Release5770-SS1 Option 31
PTF Number
PTF Download Link
7.5SI84740https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ptf/SI84740
7.4SI84743https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ptf/SI84743
7.3SI84747https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ptf/SI84747
7.2SI84797https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ptf/SI84797

 

 

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral

Important note: IBM recommends that all users running unsupported versions of affected products upgrade to supported and fixed version of affected products.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

20 Oct 2023: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
20 October 2023

UID

ibm17056685