CVE-2016-1285

medium
Published 2016-03-09 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
77%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

fedora Fedora Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
24 Affected โ€”
23 Affected โ€”
22 Affected โ€”
suse SUSE Affected 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected โ€”
13.2 Affected โ€”
13.1 Affected โ€”
12 Affected โ€”
11.4 Affected โ€”
11 Affected โ€”
โ€” Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
15.10 Affected โ€”
14.04 Affected โ€”
12.04 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Mixed 8 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-6
sid Fixed 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-6
forky Fixed 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-6
bullseye Fixed 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-6
bookworm Fixed 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-6
9.0 Affected โ€”
8.0 Affected โ€”
7.0 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
iscbind{"startIncluding":"9.0.0","endExcluding":"9.9.8"}9.9.8
iscbind9.9.8
iscbind9.10.3
suse suselinux_enterprise_debuginfo11
suse susemanager2.1
suse susemanager_proxy2.1
suse suseopenstack_cloud5
junipervsrx-

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.