{"id":"CVE-2012-1667","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-1667","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:56:54.775Z","title":"ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of…","description":"ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P1, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P1, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P1, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P1 does not properly handle resource records with a zero-length RDATA section, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or data corruption) or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted record.","published":"2012-06-05T16:55:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:40:03.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":8.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C"},"cwe":["CWE-189"],"affected":["isc/bind"],"epss":{"score":0.1326,"percentile":0.96357,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 13.3%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. 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