CVE-2012-2978

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-2978
StatePUBLISHED
Assignercertcc
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-07-27 10:27:49 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 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

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

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

Problem Types: CWE-119 | 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 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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory SA49997 - Debian update for nsd3 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2515-1 nsd3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
NSD NULL Pointer Dereference CVE-2012-2978 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
osvdb.org/84097 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
NLnet Labs - This is not a 404 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.nlnetlabs.nl Vendor Advisory
CERT Vulnerability Notes Database af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 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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