Denial of Service Vulnerability in ISC BIND 9.8.x and 9.9.x

CVE-2012-5689 · HIGH Severity

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

ISC BIND 9.8.x through 9.8.4-P1 and 9.9.x through 9.9.2-P1, in certain configurations involving DNS64 with a Response Policy Zone that lacks an AAAA rewrite rule, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query for an AAAA record.

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