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CVE-2016-1285
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-03-09T23:59:02.133 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:41:38.653

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.

Affected products

isc — bind

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References

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