CVE-2014-8500

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.

Category

7.8
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 43.82% Top 5%
Vendor Advisory marc.info Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory netbsd.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory marc.info Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory gouv.fr Vendor Advisory isc.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
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References

Link Tags
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142180687100892&w=2 vendor advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-03.xml vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/62122 third party advisory
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2015-002.txt.asc vendor advisory
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01216/ vendor advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:165 vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00038.html vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00009.html vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/62064 third party advisory
http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.html vendor advisory
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10676
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3094 vendor advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1031311 vdb entry
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0524.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00013.html vendor advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212 third party advisory us government resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71590 vdb entry
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00017.html vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00001.html vendor advisory
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2437-1 patch vendor advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144000632319155&w=2 vendor advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00004.html vendor advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0078.html vendor advisory
https://support.apple.com/HT205219
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190730-0002/

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-8500?
CVE-2014-8500 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-8500?
To fix CVE-2014-8500, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-8500 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2014-8500 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~44% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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