CVE-2015-5477

high
Published 2015-07-29 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.7-P2 and 9.10.x before 9.10.2-P3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (REQUIRE assertion failure and daemon exit) via TKEY queries.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37721 dos multiple verified
Errata Security ยท 2015-08-01

ISC BIND 9 - TKEY (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.
EDB-37723 dos multiple
elceef ยท 2015-08-05

ISC BIND 9 - TKEY Remote Denial of Service (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

BIND TKEY Query Denial of Service
Source fetch failed: fetch_error โ€” view the original via the link above.

OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:9.9.5.dfsg-11
sid Fixed 1:9.9.5.dfsg-11
forky Fixed 1:9.9.5.dfsg-11
bullseye Fixed 1:9.9.5.dfsg-11
bookworm Fixed 1:9.9.5.dfsg-11

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
iscbind{"endIncluding":"9.9.7"}

References

CWEs

CWE-19

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.