CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-3817

7.8 HIGH Published 2012-07-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-07-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

ISC BIND 9.4.x, 9.5.x, 9.6.x, and 9.7.x before 9.7.6-P2; 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P2; 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P2; and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P2, when DNSSEC validation is enabled, does not properly initialize the failing-query cache, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) by sending many queries.

Affected configurations

• isc bind 9.4 • isc bind 9.4.0 • isc bind 9.4.1 • isc bind 9.4.2 • isc bind 9.4.3 • isc bind 9.5 • isc bind 9.5.0 • isc bind 9.5.1 • isc bind 9.5.2 • isc bind 9.5.3 • isc bind 9.6.0 • isc bind 9.6.1 • isc bind 9.6.2 • isc bind 9.6.3 • isc bind 9.7.0 • isc bind 9.7.1 • isc bind 9.7.2 • isc bind 9.7.3 • isc bind 9.7.4 • isc bind 9.7.5 • isc bind 9.7.6 • isc bind 9.8.0 • isc bind 9.8.1 • isc bind 9.8.2 • isc bind 9.8.3 • isc bind 9.9.0 • isc bind 9.9.1 • isc bind 9.6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References