CVE-2015-8461 — Race Condition in Bind

Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
EPSS
8.1%
top 7.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 16
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Race condition in resolver.c in named in ISC BIND 9.9.8 before 9.9.8-P2 and 9.10.3 before 9.10.3-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:N/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.9

Affected Packages1 packages

â–¶NVDisc/bind64 versions+63

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h967-r8fq-h9x2: Race condition in resolver↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2015-8461: Race condition in resolver↗2015-12-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Red Hat
bind: race condition when handling socket errors can lead to an assertion failure in resolver.c↗2015-12-15
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Debian
CVE-2015-8461: bind9 - Race condition in resolver.c in named in ISC BIND 9.9.8 before 9.9.8-P2 and 9.10...↗2015
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8461 bind: race condition when handling socket errors can lead to an assertion failure in resolver.c [fedora-23]↗2015-12-15
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8461 bind: race condition when handling socket errors can lead to an assertion failure in resolver.c↗2015-12-14
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