CVE-2013-4854 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4854?

CVE-2013-4854 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 26 Jul 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4854?

It affects 12 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Freebsd Freebsd, Hp Hp-Ux, Isc Bind, Isc Dnsco Bind, Mandriva Business Server and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4854?

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-2013-4854 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4854 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4854, DSA-2728-1, GHSA-pm36-8qh4-c679, MGASA-2013-0237, RHSA-2013:1114, RHSA-2013:1115.