CVE-2013-2266
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 42.9%EU EUVD
libdns in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.4-P2, 9.8.5 before 9.8.5b2, 9.9.x before 9.9.2-P2, and 9.9.3 before 9.9.3b2 on UNIX platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a memory-exhaustion attack against a machine running a named process.
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-119
- EPSS score
- 42.9% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-2212)
- Published
- March 28, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-2212 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- isc / bind
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References
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1244
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101500.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101603.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136804614120794&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0689.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0690.html
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2656
- http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2013-2266(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58736
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1783-1
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00871/
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00879/(Vendor Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19579
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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