CVE-2013-3919: FAQ and Supplemental Information

About This Document

For up-to-date information on this vulnerability, patches, and other operational information, please see the official vulnerability announcement. This article is intended to supplement the information in that announcement and will be updated as needed to further describe the operational impact of this vulnerability.

Am I vulnerable?

The bug causing this problem was inadvertently introduced in the most recent releases of BIND
9 - so we are confident that this vulnerability only impacts 9.9.3, 9.8.5, and 9.6-ESV-R9 and all of their beta and release candidates (9.9.3b1, 9.9.3b2, 9.9.3rc1, 9.9.3rc2, 9.8.5b1, 9.8.5b2, 9.8.5rc1, 9.8.5rc2, 9.6-ESV-R9b1, 9.6-ESV-R9b2, 9.6-ESV-R9rc1, and 9.6-ESV-R9rc2).

Any server that does recursion for whatever reason could crash as a result of sending queries to and receiving responses from a malformed zone - whether this be accidental or deliberately contrived.

Authoritative-only servers are at less risk, since they only do recursion (i.e. send iterative queries) in very specific and limited circumstances - but they should still be considered vulnerable. For more information on the recursive queries made by authoritative-only servers, see article Why does my authoritative-only nameserver try to query the root nameservers?