5.9med

CVE-2019-6471

A race condition when discarding malformed packets can cause BIND to exit with an assertion failure

Published 7 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.9
v3.0 · CNA
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
3.3%
percentile 89%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A race condition which may occur when discarding malformed packets can result in BIND exiting due to a REQUIRE assertion failure in dispatch.c. Versions affected: BIND 9.11.0 -> 9.11.7, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.4-P1, 9.14.0 -> 9.14.2. Also all releases of the BIND 9.13 development branch and version 9.15.0 of the BIND 9.15 development branch and BIND Supported Preview Edition versions 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.7-S1.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

3.29% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
CNA3.05.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD3.15.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA3.05.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.04.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • ISC BIND 9

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
  • CWE-617 Reachable Assertion

References

  • kb.isc.org /docs/cve-2019-6471 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • support.f5.com /csp/article/K10092301?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

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