National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2241
Original release date:05/02/2007
Last revised:11/13/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Unspecified vulnerability in query.c in ISC BIND 9.4.0, and 9.5.0a1 through 9.5.0a3, when recursion is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon exit) via a sequence of queries processed by the query_addsoa function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
Successful exploitation requires that "recursion" is enabled.
Official Statement from Red Hat (05/03/2007)
Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of BIND as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#718460
Name: VU#718460
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1593
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017985
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25070
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 34748
External Source: XF
Name: bind-queryaddsoa-dos(33988)
External Source: BID
Name: 23738
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:100
