CVE-2009-0265

HIGH

ISC BIND 9.6.0 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm

Description

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) BIND 9.6.0 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077 and CVE-2009-0025.

References (6)

[Mailing List] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.dns.bind/browse_thread/thread/49ef622c8329fd33

[Broken Link, Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/33559

[Mailing List, Patch] http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.540362

[Broken Link] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:037

[Broken Link] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0043

[Broken Link, Vendor Advisory] https://www.isc.org/node/373

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0039

EPSS Percentile 59.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-295 CWE-252

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

isc/bind < 9.6.0

Timeline

Published Jan 26, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026