DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4854

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4854

    Published: 29 Jul 2013Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-4854

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4854

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bind9

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/bind9?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3

    Affected versions

    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
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