CVE-2023-5679 HIGH

CVE-2023-5679: Enabling both DNS64 and serve-stale may cause an assertion failure during recursive resolution

Vendor Isc
Product BIND 9
Published February 13, 2024
Last update March 28, 2025
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CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 13, 2024 CVE published
March 28, 2025 Record updated