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NTAP-20221209-0008 — CVE-2012-4244 ISC BIND Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2022-12-09 · Updated 2022-12-23 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20221209-0008 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP | ONTAP-relevant

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2012-4244 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2012-4244 — ISC BIND 9.x before 9.7.6-P3, 9.8.x before 9.8.3-P3, 9.9.x before 9.9.1-P3, and 9.4-ESV and 9.6-ESV before 9.6-ESV-R7-P3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and named daemon exit) via a query for a long resource record.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

ONTAP 9 (formerly Clustered Data ONTAP)

References

https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00778 ↗

What to do

Check the affected products listed above against the official advisory's affected-versions table — that is where the exact ONTAP 9 release, ONTAP tool, or management product versions are named.
If affected and a fixed release exists, plan the upgrade — see the ONTAP upgrade runbook.
If exploitation is listed as "active", treat remediation as urgent and review exposure (management LIFs, ONTAP S3, SnapMirror endpoints).
Harden in parallel: security hardening baseline and ransomware protection on ONTAP.