CVE-2012-2979: Freebsd Name Server Daemon

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

FreeBSD NSD before 3.2.13 allows remote attackers to crash a NSD child server process (SIGSEGV) and cause a denial of service in the NSD server.

Affected products

• Freebsd Name Server Daemon: before 3.2.13 (fixed in 3.2.13)

Published 2019-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.