CVE-2012-4244: ISC BIND

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 36.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P3, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P3, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P3, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query for a long resource record.

Affected products

• ISC BIND: version 9.0 only; version 9.0.0 only; version 9.0.1 only; version 9.1 only; version 9.1.0 only; version 9.1.1 only; …

Published 2012-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.