VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-1285

CVSS score6.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability59.14%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-03-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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