Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-2266

Title: Isc Bind Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-2266.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Mar 28, 2013

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

42.85%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-2266: 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.

Impacted Vendors

isc 1

Reference Links

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1244 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101500.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101603.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136804614120794&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0689.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0690.html http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2656 http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2013-2266 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58736 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1783-1 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00871/ https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00879/ https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19579 http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1244 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101500.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101603.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136804614120794&w=2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0689.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0690.html http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2656 http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2013-2266 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58736 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1783-1 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00871/ https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00879/ https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19579

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-2013-2266 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.

March 28, 2013 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.