A Specially Crafted Resource Record Could Cause named to Terminate

Summary: 
If a record with RDATA in excess of 65535 bytes is loaded into a nameserver, a subsequent query for that record will cause named to exit with an assertion failure.
CVE: 
CVE-2012-4244
Document Version: 
2.0
Posting date: 
12 Sep 2012
Program Impacted: 
BIND
Versions affected: 
9.0.x -> 9.9.1-P2
Severity: 
Critical
Exploitable: 
Remotely
Description: 

Please see the full advisory at https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00778/

Active exploits: 
None known at this time.
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