CVE-2012-5688

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

ISC BIND 9.8.x before 9.8.4-P1 and 9.9.x before 9.9.2-P1, when DNS64 is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted query.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10
ISC BIND: 9.8.0, 9.8.0-a1, 9.8.0-b1, 9.8.0-p1, 9.8.0-p2, 9.8.0-p4 (+31)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1549.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2012&m=slackware-security.536004
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1657-1
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00828
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1549.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2012&m=slackware-security.536004
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1657-1
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00828

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