CVE-2017-3139

HIGH

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS - Denial of Service via DNSSEC Validation Assertion Failure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled DNSSEC validation. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-3139
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1447743

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0163
EPSS Percentile 73.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-617
Status published
Products (7)
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 6.2
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 6.4
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 6.5
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_aus 6.6
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_eus 6.7
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_tus 6.5
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_tus 6.6
Published Apr 09, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026