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CVE-2013-4854
The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 34.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 10 days later
· 10 days later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 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 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 34.2% · top 1.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
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- FEDORA-2013-13863 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- HPSBUX02926 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01015 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2014-10-16-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 54134 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2013:202 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1244 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 54185 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-13:07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01016 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19561 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10052 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-13831 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 54207 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1354 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- isc-bind-cve20134854-dos(86004) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-13-210/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20130806 [slackware-security] bind (SSA:2013-218-01) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1114 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 61479 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 54323 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2013:1310 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 54211 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-1910-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-2728 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1028838 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1115 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 54432 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-4699 (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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