CVE-2013-4854

high
Published 2013-07-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

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.

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-2013-4854

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01016

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01015

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c03922396

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:202

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:07.bind.asc

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/54432

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/54323

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/54211

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/54207

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/54185

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/54134

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1115.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1114.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00018.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00004.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113251.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-August/113108.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
debian debianbullseyefixed1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
debian debianforkyfixed1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
debian debiansidfixed1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
debian debiantrixiefixed1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
redhat rhel5affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
suse suse11.4affected
fedora fedora18affected
fedora fedora19affected
freebsd freebsd8.0affected
freebsd freebsd8.1affected
freebsd freebsd8.2affected
freebsd freebsd8.3affected
freebsd freebsd8.4affected
freebsd freebsd9.0affected
freebsd freebsd9.1affected
freebsd freebsd9.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
iscbind9.7.0
iscbind9.7.1
iscbind9.7.2
iscbind9.7.3
iscbind9.7.4
iscbind9.7.5
iscbind9.7.6
iscbind9.7.7
susesuse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit11.0
iscdnsco_bind9.9.3
iscdnsco_bind9.9.4
iscbind9.9.0
iscbind9.9.1
iscbind9.9.2
iscbind9.9.3
iscbind9.8.0
iscbind9.8.1
iscbind9.8.2
iscbind9.8.3
iscbind9.8.4
iscbind9.8.5
iscbind9.8.6

References

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