# CVE-2007-0493: Use-after-free vulnerability in ISC BIND 9.3.0 up to 9.3.3, 9.4.0a1 up to 9.4.0a6, 9.4.0b1 up to 9.4.0b4, 9.4.0rc1, and 9.5.0a1 (Bind Forum

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2007-01-25 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in ISC BIND 9.3.0 up to 9.3.3, 9.4.0a1 up to 9.4.0a6, 9.4.0b1 up to 9.4.0b4, 9.4.0rc1, and 9.5.0a1 (Bind Forum only) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (named daemon crash) via unspecified vectors that cause named to "dereference a freed fetch context."

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- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01070495
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-06.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24129
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24048
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind.asc
- https://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00967144
- http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.007.html
- http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2007-003.txt.asc
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23943
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:030
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0057.html
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0005
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25402
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25649
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24930
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2163
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2537
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23977
- http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/view/?release=9.2.8
- http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php

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