CVE-2014-8500

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-12-08

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.

See more information about CVE-2014-8500 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	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

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