CVE-2013-4854
37Vexday Risk Score
Prioritize patching. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck.
ssvc Attendepss 34%
from disclosure to weapon
Published on NVDJul 26
VulnCheckJul 26
exploitation probability
34%top 2% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-08/0030.htmlhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.htmlhttp://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1244http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113108.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113251.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00004.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00018.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1114.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1115.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/54134http://secunia.com/advisories/54185http://secunia.com/advisories/54207