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CVE-2014-8500

bind: delegation handling denial of service

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · December 8, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND followed DNS delegations. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted zone containing a large number of referrals which, when looked up and processed, would cause named to use excessive amounts of memory or crash.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption