CVE-2014-8500

high
Published 2014-12-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

Description

ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.8.x, 9.9.0 through 9.9.6, and 9.10.0 through 9.10.1 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and named crash) via a large or infinite number of referrals.

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-2014-8500

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01216/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3094

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2437-1

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:9.9.5.dfsg-7
debian debianbullseyefixed1:9.9.5.dfsg-7
debian debianforkyfixed1:9.9.5.dfsg-7
debian debiansidfixed1:9.9.5.dfsg-7
debian debiantrixiefixed1:9.9.5.dfsg-7

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
iscbind9.0
iscbind9.0.1
iscbind9.1
iscbind9.1.1
iscbind9.1.2
iscbind9.1.3
iscbind9.2
iscbind9.2.0
iscbind9.2.1
iscbind9.2.2
iscbind9.2.3
iscbind9.2.4
iscbind9.2.5
iscbind9.2.6
iscbind9.2.7
iscbind9.2.8
iscbind9.2.9
iscbind9.3
iscbind9.3.0
iscbind9.3.1
iscbind9.3.2
iscbind9.3.3
iscbind9.3.4
iscbind9.3.5
iscbind9.3.6
iscbind9.4
iscbind9.4.0
iscbind9.4.1
iscbind9.4.2
iscbind9.4.3
iscbind9.5
iscbind9.5.0
iscbind9.5.1
iscbind9.5.2
iscbind9.5.3
iscbind9.6.0
iscbind9.6.1
iscbind9.6.2
iscbind9.6.3
iscbind9.7.0
iscbind9.7.1
iscbind9.7.2
iscbind9.7.3
iscbind9.7.4
iscbind9.7.5
iscbind9.7.6
iscbind9.7.7
iscbind9.8.0
iscbind9.8.1
iscbind9.8.2
iscbind9.8.3
iscbind9.8.4
iscbind9.8.5
iscbind9.8.6
iscbind9.9.0
iscbind9.9.1
iscbind9.9.2
iscbind9.9.3
iscbind9.9.4
iscbind9.9.5
iscbind9.9.6
iscbind9.10.0
iscbind9.10.1

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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