CVE-2013-3919

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2013-06-04
Bugzilla:
970905: CVE-2013-3919 bind: Querying a recursive resolver for a malformed zone causes named to crash

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

resolver.c in ISC BIND 9.8.5 before 9.8.5-P1, 9.9.3 before 9.9.3-P1, and 9.6-ESV-R9 before 9.6-ESV-R9-P1, when a recursive resolver is configured, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query for a record in a malformed zone.

Find out more about CVE-2013-3919 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of bind as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This issue does not affect the version of bind97 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 bind Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bind97 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bind Not affected

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