CVE-2011-4313

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 16.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

query.c in ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.6.x, 9.4-ESV through 9.4-ESV-R5, 9.6-ESV through 9.6-ESV-R5, 9.7.0 through 9.7.4, 9.8.0 through 9.8.1, and 9.9.0a1 through 9.9.0b1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named exit) via unknown vectors related to recursive DNS queries, error logging, and the caching of an invalid record by the resolver.

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 (+232)

References

http://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2011_4313_denial_of
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069463.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069970.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-November/069975.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00028.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00029.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132310123002302&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133978480208466&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141879471518471&w=2
http://osvdb.org/77159

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