CVE-2013-4854 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2013-4854

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x...

Vulnerability Description

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.

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.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

bind, suse linux enterprise software development kit, suse linux, dnsco bind, opensuse, freebsd, business server, enterprise server, enterprise linux, fedora, hp-ux, slackware linux
Vulnerable Versions:
9.7.0, 9.7.1, 9.7.2, 9.7.3, 9.7.4, 9.7.5, 9.7.6, 9.7.7, 9.9.0, 9.9.1, 9.9.2, 9.9.3, 9.8.0, 9.8.1, 9.8.2, 9.8.3, 9.8.4, 9.8.5, 9.8.6, 11.0, 11, 9.9.4, 11.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 1.0, 5.0, 5, 6.0, 18, 19, b.11.31, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37

Timeline

Official Publish: July 26th, 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.