CVE-2016-1285

MEDIUM

ISC BIND 9.x <9.9.8-P4,9.10.x <9.10.3-P4 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.8-P4 and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P4 does not properly handle DNAME records when parsing fetch reply messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed packet to the rndc (aka control channel) interface, related to alist.c and sexpr.c.

References (29)

Core 29
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3511
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_freebsd
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:13.bind.asc
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2925-1
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01352
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0562.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-07
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035236
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00013.html
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=146191105921542&w=2
Broken Link, Release Notes x_refsource_confirm
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01380
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0601.html
Broken Link x_refsource_confirm
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01438

Scores

CVSS v3 6.8
EPSS 0.6897
EPSS Percentile 98.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (16)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 15.10
debian/debian_linux 7.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 22
fedoraproject/fedora 23
fedoraproject/fedora 24
isc/bind 9.9.8 (4 CPE variants)
... and 6 more
Published Mar 09, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026