vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3119-1 (CVE-2016-8864): Bind vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 1, 2016
Added
Jul 1, 2017
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

Tony Finch and Marco Davids discovered that Bind incorrectly handled
certain responses containing a DNAME answer. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of
service.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-bind9
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