CVE-2013-4854

Published: 27 July 2013

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
bind9 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Released (1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1ubuntu0.10)
	precise	Released (1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.7)
	quantal	Released (1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4.2ubuntu3.3)
	raring	Released (1:9.9.2.dfsg.P1-2ubuntu2.1)
	upstream	Released (9.8.5-P2, 9.9.3-P2, 9.9.3-S1-P1)

References

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01016
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1910-1
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4854
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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