CVE-2016-1285
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)69%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181036.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181037.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178831.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178880.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179904.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179911.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00046.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00053.html