CVE-2012-2979

moderate-risk
Published 2019-11-01

FreeBSD NSD before 3.2.13 allows remote attackers to crash a NSD child server process (SIGSEGV) and cause a denial of service in the NSD server.

Do I need to act?

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0.75% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Name Server Daemon

Affected Vendors

Freebsd

References (6)

Third Party Advisory https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2979
Vendor Advisory https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/17f369dc-d7e7-11e1-90a2-000c299b62e1.html
Third Party Advisory https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60150
Third Party Advisory https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2979
Vendor Advisory https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/17f369dc-d7e7-11e1-90a2-000c299b62e1.html
Third Party Advisory https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60150
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moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 3/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal