Original 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.
Affected software
- BIND 9 = 9.10.3= 9.9.8≥ 9.10.0 < 9.10.3≥ 9.0.0 < 9.9.8 Fixed in: 9.10.3, 9.9.8 exact match
Details
- Published
- 2016-03-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- cve.org/CVE-2016-1285
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1285
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181036.html
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181037.html
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178831.html
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178880.html
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179904.html
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179911.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00046.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00053.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00070.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00072.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00075.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00079.html
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