Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-1667

Title: Isc Bind Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-1667.

CWE Category CWE-189
Published Date Jun 05, 2012
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 8.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
13.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-1667: ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or data corruption) or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted record.

Impacted Vendors

I
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Reference Links

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00010.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134132772016230&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0717.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1110.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51096 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2486 http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-1667 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/381699 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:089 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53772 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2012&m=slackware-security.536004 https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952488 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00698 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00010.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134132772016230&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0717.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1110.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51096 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2486 http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-1667 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/381699 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:089 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53772 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2012&m=slackware-security.536004 https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952488 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00698
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
8.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-1667 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.