CVE-2014-8602

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-12-08
CWE:
CWE-770
Bugzilla:
1172065: CVE-2014-8602 unbound: specially crafted request can lead to denial of service
A denial of service flaw was found in unbound that an attacker could use to trick the unbound resolver into following an endless loop of delegations, consuming an excessive amount of resources.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8602 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (unbound) RHSA-2015:2455 2015-11-19

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