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HistoryAug 26, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

K14386 : BIND vulnerability CVE-2013-2266

2014-08-2600:00:00
my.f5.com
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AI Score

7.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.943

Percentile

99.2%

Security Advisory Description

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.
(
CVE-2013-2266
)
Impact
A maliciously crafted regular expression can be used to invoke a denial of service attack against affected versions of BIND that result in memory consumption.