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bind: libdns regular expressions excessive resource consumption DoS

Published Mar 28, 2013

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.

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Remediation

Red Hat statement

This issue did not affect the versions of bind package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This issue was corrected in bind97 packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and bind packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 28, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Feb 21, 2013

CISA Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026

Red Hat

Severity Important
Public date Mar 26, 2013
Bugzilla 928027

ENISA EUVD

Assigner mitre
Published Mar 28, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024

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