An attacker can leverage this flaw to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources. Upon restart the attacker would have to begin again, but nevertheless there is the potential to deny service.
Metrics
CVSS Version: 3.1 |
Base Score: 7.5 HIGH Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-ID: CWE Name: In BIND 9.18.0 -> 9.18.6 and versions 9.19.0 -> 9.19.4 of the BIND 9.19 development branch, changes between OpenSSL 1.x and OpenSSL 3.0 expose a flaw in named that causes a small memory leak in key processing when using TKEY records in Diffie-Hellman mode with OpenSSL 3.0.0 and later versions. Source: ISC
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)