Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres Affecting nsd package, versions [,3.2.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.74% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NSD-2420023
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Nov 2019

CVE-2012-2979  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-669  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nsd to version 3.2.13 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres. FreeBSD NSD before 3.2.13 allows remote attackers to crash a NSD child server process (SIGSEGV) and cause a denial of service in the NSD server.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1