CVE-2012-1667
EPSS 53.2%bind9 - denial of service
Published: 6/5/2012Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or data corruption) or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted record.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/bind9from 0, < 1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4.1
- Debian/bind9from 0, < 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze5