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These can all be downloaded from http://www.isc.org/downloads.\n\n    BIND 9 version 9.9.10-P1\n    BIND 9 version 9.10.5-P1\n    BIND 9 version 9.11.1-P1\n\nBIND Supported Preview Edition is a special feature preview branch of BIND provided to eligible ISC support customers.\n\n    BIND 9 version 9.9.10-S2\n    BIND 9 version 9.10.5-S2"}],"source":{"discovery":"UNKNOWN"},"workarounds":[{"lang":"en","value":"BIND installations on Windows are not at risk if the host file permissions prevent creation of a binary in a location where the service executor would run it instead of named.exe."}],"x_legacyV4Record":{"CVE_data_meta":{"ASSIGNER":"security-officer@isc.org","DATE_PUBLIC":"2017-06-14T00:00:00.000Z","ID":"CVE-2017-3141","STATE":"PUBLIC","TITLE":"Windows service and uninstall paths are not quoted when BIND is installed"},"affects":{"vendor":{"vendor_data":[{"product":{"product_data":[{"product_name":"BIND 9","version":{"version_data":[{"version_value":"9.2.6-P2->9.2.9, 9.3.2-P1->9.3.6, 9.4.0->9.8.8, 9.9.0->9.9.10, 9.10.0->9.10.5, 9.11.0->9.11.1, 9.9.3-S1->9.9.10-S1, 9.10.5-S1"}]}}]},"vendor_name":"ISC"}]}},"credit":[{"lang":"eng","value":"ISC would like to thank John Page aka hyp3rlinx for reporting this issue."}],"data_format":"MITRE","data_type":"CVE","data_version":"4.0","description":{"description_data":[{"lang":"eng","value":"The BIND installer on Windows uses an unquoted service path which can enable a local user to achieve privilege escalation if the host file system permissions allow this. 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