CVE-2012-2978

Summary

CVECVE-2012-2978
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-07-27 10:27:00 UTC
Updated2017-12-22 02:29:00 UTC
Descriptionquery.c in NSD 3.0.x through 3.0.8, 3.1.x through 3.1.1, and 3.2.x before 3.2.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and child process crash) via a crafted DNS packet.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.0 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.1 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.2 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.3 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.4 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.5 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.6 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.7 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.8 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.1.0 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.1.1 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.0 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.1 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.10 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.3 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.4 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.5 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.6 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.7 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.8 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.9 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.0 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.1 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.2 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.3 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.4 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.5 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.6 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.7 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.0.8 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.1.0 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.1.1 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.0 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.1 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.10 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.3 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.4 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.5 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.6 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.7 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.8 All All All
Application Nlnetlabs Nsd 3.2.9 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
84097 OSVDB osvdb.org
NLnet Labs - This is not a 404 CONFIRM www.nlnetlabs.nl Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2515-1 nsd3 DEBIAN www.debian.org
NSD NULL Pointer Dereference CVE-2012-2978 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Security Advisory SA49997 - Debian update for nsd3 - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com
CERT Vulnerability Notes Database CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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