CVE-2010-3613 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.0 Published 3 Dec 2010 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Remote attackers can crash the ISC BIND DNS daemon by sending queries for cached signed negative responses, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2010-3613?

CVE-2010-3613 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Isc Bind, published on 3 Dec 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

named in ISC BIND 9.6.2 before 9.6.2-P3, 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R3, and 9.7.x before 9.7.2-P3 does not properly handle the combination of signed negative responses and corresponding RRSIG records in the cache, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a query for cached data.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-3613?

It affects 1 product.

Linux distribution packages (24)

`bind` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-chroot` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-debuginfo` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-devel` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-libs` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-utils` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-chroot` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-debuginfo` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-devel` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-libs` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-utils` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-chroot` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-debuginfo` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-devel` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-libs` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-utils` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-chroot` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-debuginfo` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-devel` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-libs` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`
`bind-utils` Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws	All versions	`20:9.2.4-30.el4_8.6`

Products include Isc Bind.

How do I fix CVE-2010-3613?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2010-3613 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-3613 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Isc Bind vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3613, GHSA-7hh4-vqqp-5g89, RHSA-2010:1000.