CVE-2013-2266 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2013-2266

libdns in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.4-P2, 9.8.5...

Vulnerability Description

libdns in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.4-P2, 9.8.5 before 9.8.5b2, 9.9.x before 9.9.2-P2, and 9.9.3 before 9.9.3b2 on UNIX platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a named process.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

bind
Vulnerable Versions:
9.9.0, 9.9.1, 9.9.2, 9.9.3, 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, 9.8.4, 9.8.5

Timeline

Official Publish: March 28th, 2013
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.