CVE-2015-5722

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 34.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

buffer.c in named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.7-P3 and 9.10.x before 9.10.2-P4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) by creating a zone containing a malformed DNSSEC key and issuing a query for a name in that zone.

Affected products

Apple Mac Os X Server: 5.0.15
ISC BIND: through 9.9.7; through 9.10.2

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Oct/msg00009.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168686.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165750.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165810.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165996.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167465.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00033.html

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