ISC BIND up to 8.4.1 Reply Negative Reply denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in ISC BIND up to 8.4.1. Affected is an unknown function of the component Reply Handler. Performing a manipulation as part of Negative Reply results in denial of service. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2003-0914. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in ISC BIND up to 8.4.1 (Domain Name Software). This affects an unknown code of the component Reply Handler. The manipulation as part of a Negative Reply leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

ISC BIND 8.3.x before 8.3.7, and 8.4.x before 8.4.3, allows remote attackers to poison the cache via a malicious name server that returns negative responses with a large TTL (time-to-live) value.

The bug was discovered 11/26/2003. The weakness was disclosed 11/27/2003 with ISC (Website). The advisory is shared at isc.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-0914 since 11/04/2003. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 14429 (AIX 5.2 : IY49883), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family AIX Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 15048 (ISC BIND Negative Cache Poison Denial of Service Vulnerability).

Upgrading to version 8.3.7 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at isc.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (13854), Tenable (14429), SecurityFocus (BID 9114†), OSVDB (2866†) and Secunia (SA10300†). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 14429
Nessus Name: AIX 5.2 : IY49883
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OpenVAS ID: 53108
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 409-1 (bind)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: BIND 8.3.7
Patch: isc.org

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: isc.org

Advisory: isc.org
Researcher: http://www.isc.org
Organization: ISC
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2003-0914 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2003-0914
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-417

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X-Force: 13854
SecurityFocus: 9114 - ISC BIND Negative Cache Poison Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 10300 - BIND Negative Cache Poisoning Vulnerability, Not Critical
OSVDB: 2866 - ISC BIND Negative Record Cache Poisoning
Vulnerability Center: 3041 - ISC BIND in Multiple Versions Allows Cache Poisoning, Medium

Entryinfo

Created: 11/27/2003 13:08
Updated: 07/20/2025 03:18
Changes: 11/27/2003 13:08 (89), 06/27/2019 10:55 (4), 01/22/2025 08:16 (18), 07/20/2025 03:18 (2)
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Cache ID: 216:89C:103

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