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Title: High TCP Query Load Can Trigger a Memory Leak in BIND 9 Summary: Under heavy incoming TCP query loads named experiences a memory leak which may lead to significant reductions in query response performance. Additionally, this can trigger an automatic shutdown if named is running on a system that kills out-of-memory processes. CVE: CVE-2012-3868 Document Version: 2.0 Posting date: 24 July 2012 Program Impacted: BIND9 Versions affected: 9.9.0 through 9.9.1-P1 Severity: High Exploitable: Remotely Description: BIND 9 tracks incoming queries using a structure called "ns_client". When a query has been answered and the ns_client structure is no longer needed, it is stored on a queue of inactive ns_clients. When a new ns_client is needed to service a new query, the queue is checked to see if any inactive ns_clients are available before a new one is allocated; this speeds up the system by avoiding unnecessary memory allocations and de-allocations. However, when the queue is empty, and one thread inserts an ns_client into it while another thread attempts to remove it, a race bug could cause the ns_client to be lost; since the queue would appear empty in that case, a new ns_client would be allocated from memory. This condition occurred very infrequently with UDP queries but much more frequently under high TCP query loads; over time, the number of allocated but misplaced ns_client objects could grow large enough to affect system performance, and could trigger an automatic shutdown of the named process on systems with an "OOM killer" (out of memory killer) mechanism. CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Equation: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) For more information on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System and to obtain your specific environmental score please visit:http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?calculator&adv&version=2&vector=(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) Workarounds: None available Solution: Upgrade to BIND 9 version 9.9.1-P2. BIND 9.9.1-P2 is available from www.isc.org/downloads/all Exploit Status: Not known Acknowledgment: ISC would like to thank Kevin Sheehan of Infoblox, Inc., and Anand Buddhdev from the RIPE NCC. Document Revision History: 1.0 -Phase 1 contacted 11 July, 2012 1.1 -Phase 1 re-issued 17 July, 2012. Re-released this patch with additional code to Phase 1. 1.2 - 23 July 2012 Phase 2 & 3 notified 2.0 - 24 July 2012 Phase 4-Public released References: Do you have Questions? Questions regarding this advisory should go to security-offi...@isc.org. ISC Security Vulnerability Disclosure Policy: Details of our current security advisory policy and practice can be found here:https://www.isc.org/security-vulnerability-disclosure-policy Japanese Translation: https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00753 Spanish Translation: https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00751 German Translation: https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00742 Legal Disclaimer: Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is providing this notice on an "AS IS" basis. No warranty or guarantee of any kind is expressed in this notice and none should be inferred. ISC expressly excludes and disclaims any warranties regarding this notice or materials referred to in this notice, including, without limitation, any inferred warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, absence of hidden defects, or of non-infringement. Your use of, or reliance on, this notice or materials referred to in this notice is at your own risk. ISC may change this notice at any time. A stand-alone copy or paraphrase of the text of this document that omits the distribution URL in the following section is an uncontrolled copy. Uncontrolled copies may lack important information, be out of date, or contain factual errors. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
