CVE-2016-2088
medium
CVSS v3
6.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.8
Description
resolver.c in named in ISC BIND 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P4, when DNS cookies are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed packet with more than one cookie option.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0 |
| sid | Fixed | 0 |
| forky | Fixed | 0 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181036.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178831.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179904.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84290
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035238
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01351
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01380
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-07
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2088
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.