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CVE-2003-0914

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-12-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ISC BIND 8.3.x before 8.3.7, and 8.4.x before 8.4.3, allows remote attackers to poison the cache via a malicious name server that returns negative responses with a large TTL (time-to-live) value.

Affected products

• Compaq Tru64: 4.0f, 4.0f_pk6_bl17, 4.0f_pk7_bl18, 4.0f_pk8_bl22, 4.0g, 4.0g_pk3_bl17 (+15)
• FreeBSD: 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.8 (+2)
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 11.00, 11.11
• IBM AIX: 5.1l
• ISC BIND: 8.2.3, 8.2.4, 8.2.5, 8.2.6, 8.2.7, 8.3.0 (+8)
• Netbsd: 1.6, 1.6.1, current
• Nixu Namesurfer: standard_3.0.1, suite_3.0.1
• Sco Unixware: 7.1.1
• Sun Solaris: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• Sunos: 5.7, 5.8

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/10542
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57434
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-409
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/734644
• http://www.trustix.org/errata/misc/2003/TSL-2003-0044-bind.asc.txt
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2011
• http://secunia.com/advisories/10542
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57434

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