CVE-2009-0696: BIND Dynamic Update DoS

BIND denial of service (server crash) caused by receipt of a specific remote dynamic update message.

CVE:

CVE-2009-0696   VU#725188

Posting date:

28 Jul 2009

Program Impacted:

BIND

Versions affected:

BIND 9 (all versions)

Severity:

High

Exploitable:

Remotely

Description:

Urgent: this exploit is public. Please upgrade immediately.

Receipt of a specially-crafted dynamic update message to a zone for
which the server is the master may cause BIND 9 servers to exit.
Testing indicates that the attack packet has to be formulated against a
zone for which that machine is a master. Launching the attack against
slave zones does not trigger the assert.

This vulnerability affects all servers that are masters for one or
more zones – it is not limited to those that are configured to allow
dynamic updates. Access controls will not provide an effective
workaround.

dns_db_findrdataset() fails when the prerequisite section of the
dynamic update message contains a record of type “ANY” and where at
least one RRset for this FQDN exists on the server:

db.c:659: REQUIRE(type != ((dns_rdatatype_t)dns_rdatatype_any)) failedexiting (due to assertion failure).

Workarounds:

                None.

(Some sites may have firewalls that can be configured with packet
filtering techniques to prevent nsupdate messages from reaching their
nameservers.)

Active exploits:

An active remote exploit is in wide circulation at this time

Solution:

Upgrade BIND to one of 9.4.3-P3, 9.5.1-P3 or 9.6.1-P1. These versions can be downloaded from:

• http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.6.1-P1/bind-9.6.1-P1.tar.gz
• http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.5.1-P3/bind-9.5.1-P3.tar.gz
• http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.4.3-P3/bind-9.4.3-P3.tar.gz

Acknowledgements:

Matthias Urlichs for reporting the problem.
Tom Daly for methodical follow-on testing.

Document Revision History:

2009-07-28 Initial text
2009-07-29 Update to reflect Tom Daly's findings
2020-02-03 Update link to ISC's Security Policy

Related Documents:

See our BIND Security Matrix for a complete listing of Security Vulnerabilities and versions affected.

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