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CVE-2009-4008

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-399
5CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

Unbound before 1.4.4 does not send responses for signed zones after mishandling an unspecified query, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DNSSEC outage) via a crafted query.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required
User interaction
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%

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

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://unbound.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound-1.4.4.tar.gz ↗