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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 1, 2019· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2012-2979

CVE-2012-2979

Description

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.

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Affected products

3

FreeBSD/NSDllm-create
Range: <3.2.13
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/nsd&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 4.3.7-1.2
Nsd3/Nsd3v5
Range: 3.2.13

Patches

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References

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security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2979nvdThird Party Advisory
vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/17f369dc-d7e7-11e1-90a2-000c299b62e1.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60150nvdThird Party Advisory

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