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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2021-25214

A broken inbound incremental zone update (IXFR) can cause named to terminate unexpectedly

Description

In BIND 9.8.5 -> 9.8.8, 9.9.3 -> 9.11.29, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.13, and versions BIND 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.29-S1 and 9.16.8-S1 -> 9.16.13-S1 of BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, as well as release versions 9.17.0 -> 9.17.11 of the BIND 9.17 development branch, when a vulnerable version of named receives a malformed IXFR triggering the flaw described above, the named process will terminate due to a failed assertion the next time the transferred secondary zone is refreshed.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

ISC BIND9

  • Open Source Branch 9.8 9.8.5 through 9.8.8affected
  • Open Source Branches 9.9 through 9.11 9.9.3 through versions before 9.11.30affected
  • Open Source Branches 9.12 through 9.16 9.12.0 through versions before 9.16.14affected
  • Supported Preview Branches 9.9-S through 9.11-S 9.9.3-S1 through versions before 9.11.30-S1affected
  • Supported Preview Branch 9.16-S 9.16.8-S1 through versions before 9.16.14-S1affected
  • Development Branch 9.17 9.17.0 through versiosn before 9.17.12affected

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