CVE-2012-1667
ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly…
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or data corruption) or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted record.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High8.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.3% · top 3.6% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (16)
- MDVSA-2012:089 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 53772 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SSA:2012-341-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- 51096 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- VU#381699 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-1667 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:0741 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- HPSBUX02795 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1110 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2012-09-19-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0722 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00698 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952488 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:0717 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-2486 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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