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CVE-2013-4854 in the critical feed json

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…

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-4699

cvss
7.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
34.2%
EPSS 34.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • isc bind 9.8.5-P2, 9.9.3-P2
  • isc dnsco_bind 9.9.3-S1-P1, 9.9.4-S1b1
  • bind9 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4854

  • bind97 RHEL 5 32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
  • bind97-libs RHEL 5 32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
  • bind97-utils RHEL 5 32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
  • bind97-chroot RHEL 5 32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
  • bind RHEL 6 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
  • bind-sdb RHEL 6 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
  • bind-libs RHEL 6 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
  • bind-utils RHEL 6 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:1115RHSA-2013:1114

  • bind openSUSE Tumbleweed 9.10.3P4-21.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10467-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4854 updated cvss 5.0

bind: named crash with an assertion failure on parsing malformed rdata

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) bind97 9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2, bind97-libs 9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2, bind97-utils 9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2, bind97-chroot 9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1115
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5, bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1114
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bind Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 bind, bind-sdb, bind-libs, bind-utils, bind-chroot, bind-pkcs11, +6 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

34.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

References

Sources

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