National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2000-0887
Original release date:12/19/2000
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
named in BIND 8.2 through 8.2.2-P6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by making a compressed zone transfer (ZXFR) request and performing a name service query on an authoritative record that is not cached, aka the "zxfr bug."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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CERT/CC Advisory: CA-2000-20
Name: CA-2000-20
External Source: BID
Name: 1923
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONECTIVA
Name: CLSA-2000:339
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: bind-zxfr-dos(5540)
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20001107 BIND 8.2.2-P5 Possible DOS
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2000:107
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: 20001112 bind: remote Denial of Service
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2000:067
External Source: CONECTIVA
Name: CLSA-2000:338
External Source: SUSE
Name: SuSE-SA:2000:45
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20001115 Trustix Security Advisory - bind and openssh (and modutils)
