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Ubuntu: USN-2925-1 (CVE-2016-1286): Bind vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2925-1 (CVE-2016-1286): Bind vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/09/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/09/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.8-P4 and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted signature record for a DNAME record, related to db.c and resolver.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bind9

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