CVE-2012-5166
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 32.7%EU EUVD
ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P4, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P4, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P4, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (named daemon hang) via unspecified combinations of resource records.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 32.7% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-5089)
- Published
- October 10, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-5089 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- isc / bind
- isc / bind
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and 228 more…
References
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/bind9_advisory5.asc
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090346.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090491.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090586.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00013.html
- http://osvdb.org/86118
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1363.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1364.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1365.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50903
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50909
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50956
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51054
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51078
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51096
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51106
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51178
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2560
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV30185
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV30247
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV30364
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV30365
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV30366
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV30367
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV30368
- http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2012-5166
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:162
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55852
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2012&m=slackware-security.536004
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
- https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_5166_denial_of
- https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952488
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00801(Vendor Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19706
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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