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CVE-2013-4854

Published: Jul 26, 2013Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDNVD-CWE-noinfo
NVD MITRE
7.8CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
34.2%
Top 1.8%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013.

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

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

n/an/a
bindiscNetworking Infrastructure
suse linux enterprise software development kitsuse
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
suse linuxnovell
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
dnsco bindiscNetworking Infrastructure
isccommercialUSNetworking Infrastructureaka internet systems consortium
susecommercialDEOperating Systems
novellcommercialUSOperating Systemsaka suse novell, novell suse
and 8 more affected products View all →

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113108.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c03922396
h20564.www2.hp.com
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01015
kb.isc.org
and 26 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Jul 26, 2013
Last Updated
Apr 29, 2026

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