CVE-2015-8461

bind: race condition when handling socket errors can lead to an assertion failure in resolver.c

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

2.6

CVSS 2.0

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Published · December 15, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Race condition in resolver.c in named in ISC BIND 9.9.8 before 9.9.8-P2 and 9.10.3 before 9.10.3-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')