CVE-2014-8500

CVE Details

Release Date:	2014-12-08
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND followed DNS delegations. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted zone containing a large number of referrals which, when looked up and processed, would cause named to use excessive amounts of memory or crash.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (bind)	ELSA-2014-1984	2014-12-12
Oracle Linux version 5 (bind97)	ELSA-2014-1985	2014-12-12
Oracle Linux version 6 (bind)	ELSA-2014-1984	2014-12-12
Oracle Linux version 7 (bind)	ELSA-2014-1984	2014-12-12
Oracle VM version 3.2 (bind)	OVMSA-2016-0055	2016-06-20
Oracle VM version 3.3 (bind)	OVMSA-2014-0084	2014-12-23