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CVE-2007-0493 Detail

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in ISC BIND 9.3.0 up to 9.3.3, 9.4.0a1 up to 9.4.0a6, 9.4.0b1 up to 9.4.0b4, 9.4.0rc1, and 9.5.0a1 (Bind Forum only) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (named daemon crash) via unspecified vectors that cause named to "dereference a freed fetch context."


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/29/2007)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of ISC BIND as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2507 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2537 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2007-003.txt.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01070495 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-January/052018.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0016.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://marc.info/?l=bind-announce&m=116968519321296&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/23904 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23924 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/23943 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/23972 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/23974 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/23977 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24014 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24048 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24054 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24129 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24203 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24930 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24950 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/25649 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-06.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017561 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.494157 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/view/?release=9.2.8 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/view/?release=9.3.4 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:030 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.007.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0057.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458066/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22229 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0005 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-418-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0349 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1401 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2163 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2315 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952488 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-989 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9614 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00967144 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-0493
NVD Published Date:
01/25/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.