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CVE-2012-0024

Published: Jan 8, 2012Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-400
NVD MITRE
7.8CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
2.9%
Top 14.9%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

MaraDNS before 1.3.07.12 and 1.4.x before 1.4.08 computes hash values for DNS data without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted queries with the Recursion Desired (RD) bit set.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:NC:NI:NA:C
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:CAvailability
Complete
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Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected Products

n/an/a
maradnsmaradns
On-prem
Networking Infrastructure / dns-dhcp-ntp
maradnsoss-projectNetworking Infrastructureaka maradns

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Impact
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References

http://samiam.org/blog/20111229.html
samiam.org
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771428
bugzilla.redhat.com
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/6
openwall.com
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Timeline

Published
Jan 8, 2012
Last Updated
Apr 29, 2026

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