CVE-2012-5688

high
Published 2012-12-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

ISC BIND 9.8.x before 9.8.4-P1 and 9.9.x before 9.9.2-P1, when DNS64 is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted query.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5688

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00828

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-1
debian debiansidfixed1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-1
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
iscbind9.8.0
iscbind9.8.1
iscbind9.8.2
iscbind9.8.3
iscbind9.9.0
iscbind9.9.1

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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