CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-2266

7.8 HIGH Published 2013-03-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-03-28
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-119

Description

libdns in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.4-P2, 9.8.5 before 9.8.5b2, 9.9.x before 9.9.2-P2, and 9.9.3 before 9.9.3b2 on UNIX platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a named process.

Affected configurations

• isc bind 9.9.0 • isc bind 9.9.1 • isc bind 9.9.2 • isc bind 9.9.3 • 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 9.8.4 • isc bind 9.8.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References