The code that processes control channel messages sent to named
calls
certain functions recursively during packet parsing. Recursion depth is
only limited by the maximum accepted packet size; depending on the
environment, this may cause the packet-parsing code to run out of
available stack memory, causing named
to terminate unexpectedly. Since
each incoming control channel message is fully parsed before its
contents are authenticated, exploiting this flaw does not require the
attacker to hold a valid RNDC key; only network access to the control
channel's configured TCP port is necessary. (CVE-2023-3341)
A flaw in the networking code handling DNS-over-TLS queries may cause
named
to terminate unexpectedly due to an assertion failure. This
happens when internal data structures are incorrectly reused under
significant DNS-over-TLS query load. (CVE-2023-4236)