CVE-2012-5688
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 10.9%EU EUVD
ISC BIND 9.8.x before 9.8.4-P1 and 9.9.x before 9.9.2-P1, when DNS64 is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted query.
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-20
- EPSS score
- 10.9% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-5571)
- Published
- December 6, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-5571 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
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References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1549.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2012&m=slackware-security.536004(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1657-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00828(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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