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CVE-2013-2266

Public on 2013-03-28
Modified on 2014-09-15
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.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 bind 2013-04-04 11:09 ALAS-2013-176

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C