CVE-2010-0290

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-01-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.3.x, 9.4 before 9.4.3-P5, 9.5 before 9.5.2-P2, 9.6 before 9.6.1-P3, and 9.7.0 beta, with DNSSEC validation enabled and checking disabled (CD), allows remote attackers to conduct DNS cache poisoning attacks by receiving a recursive client query and sending a response that contains (1) CNAME or (2) DNAME records, which do not have the intended validation before caching, aka Bug 20737. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-4022.

Affected products

ISC BIND: 9.0, 9.0.0-rc1, 9.0.0-rc2, 9.0.0-rc3, 9.0.0-rc4, 9.0.0-rc5 (+162)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00009.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126393609503704&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126399602810086&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/38219
http://secunia.com/advisories/38240
http://secunia.com/advisories/40086
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0018
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2054
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:021
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-888-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0176
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0622

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