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CVE-2012-4244

45
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4244 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting multiple versions of ISC BIND 9.x, including 9.7.x, 9.8.x, 9.9.x, and specific ESV releases. A remote attacker can trigger an assertion failure and cause the named daemon to exit by sending a query for a long resource record. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability for the affected DNS server. Despite its high severity and FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.0.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
36.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3680 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Lifecycle SupportFixed in: bind-20:9.2.4-41.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: bind97-32:9.7.0-10.P2.el5_8.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: bind-30:9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: bind-32:9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-4244Important

bind: specially crafted resource record causes named to exit

Sep 12, 2012

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087697.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087703.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/088381.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00021.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00022.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00007.html
marc.info
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1266.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1267.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1268.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1365.html
secunia.com / advisories/50560
secunia.com / advisories/50579
secunia.com / advisories/50582
secunia.com / advisories/50645
secunia.com / advisories/50673
secunia.com / advisories/51096
h20564.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
kb.isc.org / article/AA-00778
Vendor Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20221209-0008
support.apple.com / kb/HT5880
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2547
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/55522
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1566-1