CVE-2012-1667

Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or data corruption) or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted record.

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 (+249)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00010.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134132772016230&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0717.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1110.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51096
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2486
http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-1667
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/381699
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:089

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