Original 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 software
- BIND 9 = 9.6.0= 9.5.1= 9.0= 9.7.3= 9.2.3= 9.6 exact match
Details
- Published
- 2012-10-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- CWE
- CWE-189
References
- cve.org/CVE-2012-5166
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5166
- aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/bind9_advisory5.asc
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090346.html
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090491.html
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090586.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00011.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00013.html
- osvdb.org/86118
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1363.html
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1364.html
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1365.html
- secunia.com/advisories/50903
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