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CVE-2013-4854

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9...

7.8 HighFix available

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013.

Exploit likelihood

34.2%Up 7.8 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.8

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013.

Record
CVE-2013-4854
CVSS 2.0
7.8 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013.

Record
CVE-2013-4854
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2013-4699 No score

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013.

Record
EUVD-2013-4699
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-pm36-8qh4-c679 No score

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9...

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013.

Record
GHSA-pm36-8qh4-c679
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013.

Record
CVE-2013-4854
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2013-4854 No score

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4854
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVMGASA-2013-0237 No score

Updated bind package fixes security vulnerability

The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013 (CVE-2013-4854).

Record
MGASA-2013-0237
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10467-1 No score

bind-9.10.3P4-21.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the bind-9.10.3P4-21.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10467-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2015:0011-2 No score

Security update for bind

This update fixes a DoS vulnerability in bind when handling malformed NSEC3-signed zones. CVE-2014-0591 has been assigned to this issue.

Security Issue references:

* CVE-2014-0591
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0591>
Record
SUSE-SU-2015:0011-2
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2015:1205-1 No score

Security update for bind

This update fixes a DoS vulnerability in bind when handling malformed NSEC3-signed zones. CVE-2014-0591 has been assigned to this issue.

Security Issue references:

* CVE-2014-0591
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0591>
Record
SUSE-SU-2015:1205-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
bind9
Debian:12
 before 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
bind9
Debian:13
 before 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
bind9
Debian:14
 before 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3
bind9
Debian:6.0
 before 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze11, plus listed versions
1:9.7.2.dfsg.P3-1.11:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze11:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze101:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze1~bpo50+11:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze2
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1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze2~bpo50+11:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze31:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze3~bpo50+11:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze41:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze51:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze61:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze71:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze81:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze9
1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze11
bind9
Debian:7
 before 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u1, plus listed versions
1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu21:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u1~bpo60+1
1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u1
bind
Mageia:2
 before 9.9.3.P2-1.mga2
9.9.3.P2-1.mga2
bind
Mageia:3
 before 9.9.3.P2-1.mga3
9.9.3.P2-1.mga3
bind
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
bind-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-chroot
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-sdb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-chroot
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-sdb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-chroot
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-sdb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-chroot
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind-sdb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5
bind97
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
bind97-chroot
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
bind97-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
bind97-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
bind97-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
bind97-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
32:9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2
bind
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
 before 9.10.3P4-21.1
9.10.3P4-21.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2013-4854 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) in Isc Bind, published July 26, 2013. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 34.2%, the 98th percentile. Fixed in bind9 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3.

References

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