CVE-2011-4869

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

validator/val_nsec3.c in Unbound before 1.4.13p2 does not properly perform proof processing for NSEC3-signed zones, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed response that lacks expected NSEC3 records, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4528.

Affected products

Unbound: through 1.4.12; 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 (+32)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071525.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071535.html
http://osvdb.org/77910
http://secunia.com/advisories/47326
http://unbound.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/CVE-2011-4528.txt
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2370
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/209659
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71868
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071525.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071535.html
http://osvdb.org/77910
http://secunia.com/advisories/47326

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