Out-of-Bounds Affecting bind package, versions [,9.6-esv-r10-p2)[9.8.62, 9.8.6-p2)[9.9.42, 9.9.4-p2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
64.39% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BIND-2381986
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Jan 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jan 2014

CVE-2014-0591  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bind to version 9.6-esv-r10-p2, 9.8.6-p2, 9.9.4-p2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The query_findclosestnsec3 function in query.c in named in ISC BIND 9.6, 9.7, and 9.8 before 9.8.6-P2 and 9.9 before 9.9.4-P2, and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R10-P2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted DNS query to an authoritative nameserver that uses the NSEC3 signing feature.

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