Denial of Service Vulnerability in ISC BIND DNSSEC Validation

Denial of Service Vulnerability in ISC BIND DNSSEC Validation

CVE-2012-3817 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

ISC BIND 9.4.x, 9.5.x, 9.6.x, and 9.7.x before 9.7.6-P2; 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P2; 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P2; and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P2, when DNSSEC validation is enabled, does not properly initialize the failing-query cache, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) by sending many queries.

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