CVE-2014-8500

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    CVE-2014-8500

    Published: 11 Dec 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.8.x, 9.9.0 through 9.9.6, and 9.10.0 through 9.10.1 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and named crash) via a large or infinite number of referrals.

    References: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0524.html, http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.html, http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2015-002.txt.asc, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0078.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/62064, http://secunia.com/advisories/62122, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-03.xml, http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2437-1, http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3094, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:165, https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01216/, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190730-0002/, http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2437-1, http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10676, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00004.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00001.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00017.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00009.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00013.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00038.html, http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142180687100892&w=2, http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144000632319155&w=2, http://securitytracker.com/id?1031311, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71590, https://support.apple.com/HT205219

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High