CVE-2011-1910

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 24.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-05-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.3-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.0-P2, 9.4-ESV before 9.4-ESV-R4-P1, and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R4-P1 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a negative response containing large RRSIG RRsets.

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 (+231)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061082.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061401.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061405.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142180687100892&w=2
http://osvdb.org/72540
http://secunia.com/advisories/44677
http://secunia.com/advisories/44719
http://secunia.com/advisories/44741
http://secunia.com/advisories/44744
http://secunia.com/advisories/44758
http://secunia.com/advisories/44762

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