CVE-2019-6471

A race condition when discarding malformed packets can cause BIND to exit with an assertion failure

Medium · published October 9, 2019

CVSS v3.0
5.9
EPSS
3%
Percentile
88.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A race condition which may occur when discarding malformed packets can result in BIND exiting due to a REQUIRE assertion failure in dispatch.c. Versions affected: BIND 9.11.0 -> 9.11.7, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.4-P1, 9.14.0 -> 9.14.2. Also all releases of the BIND 9.13 development branch and version 9.15.0 of the BIND 9.15 development branch and BIND Supported Preview Edition versions 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.7-S1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03298 · 88.4th percentile
Published
2019-10-09T14:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 OCT 14:17Z
    A race condition when discarding malformed packets can cause BIND to exit with an assertion failure
    cvelistv5