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CVE-2015-5722

bind: malformed DNSSEC key failed assertion denial of service

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · September 2, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND parsed certain malformed DNSSEC keys. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially crafted DNS query (for example, a query requiring a response from a zone containing a deliberately malformed key) that would cause named functioning as a validating resolver to 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-617 · Reachable Assertion