CVE-2013-2266
EPSS 44.8%bind9 - denial of service
Published: 3/28/2013Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/bind9from 0, < 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu1
- Debian/bind9from 0, < 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze10