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Alpine: bind: security update to 9.16.42-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 403669

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - If the `recursive-clients` quota is reached on a BIND 9 resolver configured with both `stale-answer-enable
 yes;` and `stale-answer-client-timeout 0;`, a sequence of serve-stale-related lookups could cause `named`
 to loop and terminate unexpectedly due to a stack overflow. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.33
 through 9.16.41, 9.18.7 through 9.18.15, 9.16.33-S1 through 9.16.41-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.15-S1.
 (CVE-2023-2911)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-2911

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 403669

Version: Revision 1.28

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-2911

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2911

IAVA: 2023-A-0320-S