CVE-2012-5166

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 32.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P4, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P4, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P4, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (named daemon hang) via unspecified combinations of resource records.

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://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/bind9_advisory5.asc
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090346.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090491.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090586.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00013.html
http://osvdb.org/86118
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1363.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1364.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1365.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50903

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