SID 1:27666

Rule Category

SERVER-OTHER -- Snort has detected traffic exploiting vulnerabilities in a server in the network.

Alert Message

SERVER-OTHER ISC BIND 9 DNS rdata length handling remote denial of service attempt

Rule Explanation

This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in bind. Impact: Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. Details: The RFC 5011 implementation in rdata.c in ISC BIND 9.7.x and 9.8.x before 9.8.5-P2, 9.8.6b1, 9.9.x before 9.9.3-P2, and 9.9.4b1, and DNSco BIND 9.9.3-S1 before 9.9.3-S1-P1 and 9.9.4-S1b1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query with a malformed RDATA section that is not properly handled during construction of a log message, as exploited in the wild in July 2013. Ease of Attack: Medium

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False Positives

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Contributors

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group