Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 14, 2024· Updated Nov 4, 2025
CVE-2023-50868
CVE-2023-50868
Description
The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance is skipped) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for SHA-1 computations) via DNSSEC responses in a random subdomain attack, aka the "NSEC3" issue. The RFC 5155 specification implies that an algorithm must perform thousands of iterations of a hash function in certain situations.
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Affected products
129- DNS protocol/DNS protocoldescription
- osv-coords125 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/bindpkg:apk/chainguard/bind-devpkg:apk/chainguard/bind-dnssec-rootpkg:apk/chainguard/bind-dnssec-toolspkg:apk/chainguard/bind-docpkg:apk/chainguard/bind-libspkg:apk/chainguard/bind-pluginspkg:apk/chainguard/bind-toolspkg:apk/wolfi/bindpkg:apk/wolfi/bind-devpkg:apk/wolfi/bind-dnssec-rootpkg:apk/wolfi/bind-dnssec-toolspkg:apk/wolfi/bind-docpkg:apk/wolfi/bind-libspkg:apk/wolfi/bind-pluginspkg:apk/wolfi/bind-toolspkg:rpm/almalinux/bindpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind9.16pkg:rpm/almalinux/bind9.16-chrootpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind9.16-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind9.16-dnssec-utilspkg:rpm/almalinux/bind9.16-docpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind9.16-libspkg:rpm/almalinux/bind9.16-licensepkg:rpm/almalinux/bind9.16-utilspkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-chrootpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-dnssec-docpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-dnssec-utilspkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-docpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-dyndb-ldappkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-export-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-export-libspkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-libspkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-libs-litepkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-licensepkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-lite-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-pkcs11pkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-pkcs11-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-pkcs11-libspkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-pkcs11-utilspkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-sdbpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-sdb-chrootpkg:rpm/almalinux/bind-utilspkg:rpm/almalinux/dnsmasqpkg:rpm/almalinux/dnsmasq-utilspkg:rpm/almalinux/python3-bindpkg:rpm/almalinux/python3-bind9.16pkg:rpm/almalinux/python3-unboundpkg:rpm/almalinux/unboundpkg:rpm/almalinux/unbound-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/unbound-libspkg:rpm/opensuse/bind&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/bind&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/dnsmasq&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/dnsmasq&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/pdns-recursor&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/unbound&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.5pkg:rpm/opensuse/unbound&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/unbound&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Client%20Tools%20for%20SLE%20Micro%205pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1pkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Appl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Vulnerability mechanics
References
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- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/05/msg00011.htmlmitremailing-list
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