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ALPINE-CVE-2023-5679 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

A bad interaction between DNS64 and serve-stale may cause `named` to crash with an assertion failure during recursive resolution, when both of these features are enabled. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.12 through 9.16.45, 9.18.0 through 9.18.21, 9.19.0 through 9.19.19, 9.16.12-S1 through 9.16.45-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.21-S1.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1

7.5

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

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Alpine:v3.21	bind	9.8.0_p2-r0, 9.8.0_p2-r1, 9.8.0_p4-r0
Alpine:v3.16	bind	9.10.2_p2-r0, 9.16.20-r0, 9.16.20-r1
Alpine:v3.17	bind	9.14.7-r5, 9.14.7-r4, 9.14.4-r4
Alpine:v3.19	bind	9.18.13-r2, 0, 9.10.0-r0
Alpine:v3.22	bind	0, 9.10.0-r0, 9.10.0_p1-r0
Alpine:v3.18	bind	9.9.5-r0, 9.9.4_p2-r0, 9.9.4_p1-r1
Alpine:v3.20	bind	9.10.3-r1, 9.16.19-r0, 9.16.20-r0
Alpine:v3.23	bind	0, 9.10.0-r0, 9.10.0_p1-r0

Timeline

Feb 13, 2024 CVE Published
Dec 3, 2025 CVE Updated
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-5679 advisory

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