CVE-2012-4244

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 35.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P3, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P3, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P3, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query for a long resource 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 (+271)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087697.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087703.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088381.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00022.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00007.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141879471518471&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1266.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1267.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1268.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1365.html

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