FreeBSD: bind -- denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2016-2775)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
07/19/2016
07/25/2018
08/08/2016
10/30/2017
Description
ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.9-P2, 9.10.x before 9.10.4-P2, and 9.11.x before 9.11.0b2, when lwresd or the named lwres option is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long request that uses the lightweight resolver protocol.
Solution(s)
- freebsd-upgrade-package-bind9-devel
- freebsd-upgrade-package-bind910
- freebsd-upgrade-package-bind911
- freebsd-upgrade-package-bind99
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