CVE-2024-1737 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2024-1737

BIND's database will be slow if a very large number of RRs exist at the same name

Vulnerability Description

Resolver caches and authoritative zone databases that hold significant numbers of RRs for the same hostname (of any RTYPE) can suffer from degraded performance as content is being added or updated, and also when handling client queries for this name. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.11.37, 9.16.0 through 9.16.50, 9.18.0 through 9.18.27, 9.19.0 through 9.19.24, 9.11.4-S1 through 9.11.37-S1, 9.16.8-S1 through 9.16.50-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.27-S1.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • ISC would like to thank Toshifumi Sakaguchi for bringing this vulnerability to our attention.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

BIND 9
Vulnerable Versions:
9.11.0, 9.16.0, 9.18.0, 9.19.0, 9.11.4-S1, 9.16.8-S1, 9.18.11-S1

Timeline

Official Publish: July 23rd, 2024
Last Modified: February 13th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.