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CVE-2001-0010
published 2001-02-12

CVE-2001-0010: Buffer overflow in transaction signature (TSIG) handling code in BIND 8 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

PriorityP354critical10CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCCICAC
EXPLOIT
EPSS
31.62%
98.3th percentile
Buffer overflow in transaction signature (TSIG) handling code in BIND 8 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

Affected

3 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
iscbind——
iscbind——
iscbind——

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

port53/udp↗
port53/tcp↗
command/bin/echo 'ingreslockstream tcp nowait root /bin/bash bash -i' > /tmp/.inetd.conf; /usr/sbin/inetd /tmp/.inetd.conf↗
bytes↗
ab cd 09 80 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 01 20 20 20 20 02 61
bytes↗
00 fa ff (TSIG type 0xfa, class ANY 0xff in DNS additional record)
bytes↗
00 00 fa ff (TSIG AR terminator sequence in exploit packets)
  • →Detect DNS UDP infoleak probe packets: short (~23 byte) UDP DNS packets with the specific byte sequence AB CD 09 80 sent to port 53, used by exploits to leak the named process stack pointer before the overflow. ↗
  • →Detect DNS query packets with DNS ID 0xDEAD containing a TSIG additional record (type 0xFA) — second stage of the exploit delivering the overflow payload. ↗
  • →Detect a TCP connection to port 53 immediately followed by UDP DNS packets to the same target — the exploit establishes a TCP shell-back channel on port 53 while sending the overflow via UDP. ↗
  • →Detect DNS NAME fields in query records that contain x86 shellcode patterns (e.g., JMP/CALL sequences, int 0x80 syscall bytes 0xcd 0x80) embedded within label segments — shellcode is smuggled inside DNS NAME fields. ↗
  • ·The xtract_offset() values (argevdisp1 = 0x080d7cd0, argevdisp2 from offset 0x264 of infoleak response) are hardcoded for a specific BIND compilation and will differ across builds. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.010.0CRITICALAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
vendor_redhat10.0CRITICAL
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