Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-4244

Title: Isc Bind Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-4244.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Sep 14, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

36.80%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-4244: ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P3, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P3, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P3, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query for a long resource record.

Impacted Vendors

isc 1

Reference Links

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087697.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087703.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088381.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00022.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00007.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141879471518471&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1266.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1267.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1268.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1365.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50560 http://secunia.com/advisories/50579 http://secunia.com/advisories/50582 http://secunia.com/advisories/50645 http://secunia.com/advisories/50673 http://secunia.com/advisories/51096 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2547 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:152 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55522 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1566-1 https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952488 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00778 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221209-0008/ http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087697.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087703.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088381.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00022.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00007.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141879471518471&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1266.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1267.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1268.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1365.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50560 http://secunia.com/advisories/50579 http://secunia.com/advisories/50582 http://secunia.com/advisories/50645 http://secunia.com/advisories/50673 http://secunia.com/advisories/51096 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2547 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:152 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55522 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1566-1 https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952488 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00778 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221209-0008/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-4244 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 14, 2012 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:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.