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High · 7.2 Public exploit CVE-2017-3141 EUVD-2017-12282GHSA-6j28-2p63-cr4r

Windows service and uninstall paths are not quoted when BIND is installed

Published Jan 16, 2019 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by isc

Vendor: ISC Product: BIND 9 Package: bind Ecosystem: Alpine

Description

The BIND installer on Windows uses an unquoted service path which can enable a local user to achieve privilege escalation if the host file system permissions allow this. Affects BIND 9.2.6-P2->9.2.9, 9.3.2-P1->9.3.6, 9.4.0->9.8.8, 9.9.0->9.9.10, 9.10.0->9.10.5, 9.11.0->9.11.1, 9.9.3-S1->9.9.10-S1, 9.10.5-S1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ISC BIND 9 9.2.6-P2->9.2.9, 9.3.2-P1->9.3.6, 9.4.0->9.8.8, 9.9.0->9.9.10, 9.10.0->9.10.5, 9.11.0->9.11.1, 9.9.3-S1->9.9.10-S1, 9.10.5-S1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

openSUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed bind 9.16.20-1.4 openSUSE-SU-2024:10650-1

Alpine

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.7 bind 9.11.3-r0 —
Alpine v3.6 bind 9.11.3-r0 —

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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Advisories 1

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