CVE-2015-8461

high
Published 2015-12-16 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.1

Description

Race condition in resolver.c in named in ISC BIND 9.9.8 before 9.9.8-P2 and 9.10.3 before 9.10.3-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via unspecified vectors.

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.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
iscbind8.4.7
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
iscbind9.3
iscbind9.3.0
iscbind9.3.1
iscbind9.3.2
iscbind9.3.3
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
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
iscbind9.9.7
iscbind9.9.8
iscbind9.10.0
iscbind9.10.1
iscbind9.10.2
iscbind9.10.3

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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

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