Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8500

Title: Isc Bind Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8500.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Dec 11, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
57.52%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-8500: 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.

Impacted Vendors

I
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Reference Links

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://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://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://securitytracker.com/id?1031311 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 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://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01216/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190730-0002/ https://support.apple.com/HT205219 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://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://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://securitytracker.com/id?1031311 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 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://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01216/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190730-0002/ https://support.apple.com/HT205219
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-2014-8500 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 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:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.