CVE-2012-3817 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2012-3817

ISC BIND 9.4.x, 9.5.x, 9.6.x, and 9.7.x before 9.7.6-P2; 9.8.x...

Vulnerability Description

ISC BIND 9.4.x, 9.5.x, 9.6.x, and 9.7.x before 9.7.6-P2; 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P2; 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P2; and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P2, when DNSSEC validation is enabled, does not properly initialize the failing-query cache, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) by sending many queries.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

bind
Vulnerable Versions:
9.4, 9.4.0, 9.4.1, 9.4.2, 9.4.3, 9.5, 9.5.0, 9.5.1, 9.5.2, 9.5.3, 9.6.0, 9.6.1, 9.6.2, 9.6.3, 9.7.0, 9.7.1, 9.7.2, 9.7.3, 9.7.4, 9.7.5, 9.7.6, 9.8.0, 9.8.1, 9.8.2, 9.8.3, 9.9.0, 9.9.1, 9.6

Timeline

Official Publish: July 25th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.