CVE-2017-3137

high
Published โ€” ยท Modified โ€”
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Mistaken assumptions about the ordering of records in the answer section of a response containing CNAME or DNAME resource records could lead to a situation in which named would exit with an assertion failure when processing a response in which records occurred in an unusual order. Affects BIND 9.9.9-P6, 9.9.10b1->9.9.10rc1, 9.10.4-P6, 9.10.5b1->9.10.5rc1, 9.11.0-P3, 9.11.1b1->9.11.1rc1, and 9.9.9-S8.

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 debianbookwormfixed1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
debian debianbullseyefixed1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
debian debianforkyfixed1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
debian debiansidfixed1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
debian debiantrixiefixed1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
arch archfixed9.11.1-1
suse slesaffected

References

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

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