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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-1285: BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-1285: BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/09/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-dns-bind

References

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