CVE-2012-3868 (GCVE-0-2012-3868)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-07-25 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:21
VLAI
Summary
Race condition in the ns_client structure management in ISC BIND 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or process exit) via a large volume of TCP queries.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=sl… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00730 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2012-07-24 00:00
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