VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2978

medium
Published 2012-07-27 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

query.c in NSD 3.0.x through 3.0.8, 3.1.x through 3.1.1, and 3.2.x before 3.2.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and child process crash) via a crafted DNS packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
nlnetlabsnsd3.0.0
nlnetlabsnsd3.0.1
nlnetlabsnsd3.0.2
nlnetlabsnsd3.0.3
nlnetlabsnsd3.0.4
nlnetlabsnsd3.0.5
nlnetlabsnsd3.0.6
nlnetlabsnsd3.0.7
nlnetlabsnsd3.0.8
nlnetlabsnsd3.1.0
nlnetlabsnsd3.1.1
nlnetlabsnsd3.2.0
nlnetlabsnsd3.2.1
nlnetlabsnsd3.2.3
nlnetlabsnsd3.2.4
nlnetlabsnsd3.2.5
nlnetlabsnsd3.2.6
nlnetlabsnsd3.2.7
nlnetlabsnsd3.2.8
nlnetlabsnsd3.2.9
nlnetlabsnsd3.2.10

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.