# CVE-2014-8500: ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.8.x, 9.9.0 through 9.9.6, and 9.10.0 through 9.10.1 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attacke

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2014-12-11 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

ISC BIND 9.0.x through 9.8.x, 9.9.0 through 9.9.6, and 9.10.0 through 9.10.1 does not limit delegation chaining, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and named crash) via a large or infinite number of referrals.

## What to do

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## References

- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142180687100892&w=2
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-03.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62122
- http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2015-002.txt.asc
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01216/
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:165
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00038.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00009.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62064
- http://cert.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTFR-2014-AVI-512/index.html
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10676
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3094
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1031311
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0524.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00013.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/264212
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71590
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00001.html
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2437-1
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144000632319155&w=2
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00004.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0078.html

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