CVE-2011-4528

Summary

CVECVE-2011-4528
StatePUBLISHED
Assignercertcc
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-12-20 11:55:05 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionUnbound before 1.4.13p2 attempts to free unallocated memory during processing of duplicate CNAME records in a signed zone, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted response.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Unbound Unbound 0.0 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.09 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.1 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.10 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.11 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.2 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.3 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.4 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.5 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.6 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.7 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.7.1 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.7.2 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 0.8 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.0.0 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.0.1 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.0.2 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.1.0 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.1.1 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.2.0 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.2.1 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.3.0 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.3.1 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.3.2 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.3.3 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.3.4 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.0 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.1 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.10 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.11 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.12 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.14 rc1 All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.2 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.3 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.4 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.5 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.6 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.7 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.8 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound 1.4.9 All All All
Application Unbound Unbound All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#209659 - Unbound multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
unbound.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/CVE-2011-4528.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 unbound.nlnetlabs.nl Patch, Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2370-1 unbound af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: unbound-1.4.14-1.fc15 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
osvdb.org/77909 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: unbound-1.4.14-1.fc16 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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