The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013.

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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2728-1 bind9 security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1910-1 Bind vulnerability
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References
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-08/0030.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1244 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113108.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113251.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00018.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1114.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1115.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/54134 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/54185 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/54207 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/54211 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/54323 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/54432 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2728 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:07.bind.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:202 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61479 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028838 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1910-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-13-210/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86004 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c03922396 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01015 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01015/74/CVE-2013-4854%3A-A-specially-crafted-query-can-cause-BIND-to-terminate-abnormally.html cve-icon
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01016 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10052 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4854 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19561 cve-icon cve-icon
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4854 cve-icon
History

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.70645}

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{'score': 0.70184}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T16:59:39.290Z

Reserved: 2013-07-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-4854

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-07-29T13:59:37.537

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-4854

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-4854 - Bugzilla

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