Input validation error in ISC BIND - CVE-2016-1285

 

Input validation error in ISC BIND - CVE-2016-1285

Published: March 10, 2016 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32321
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1285
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to a crash the entire system.

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

ISC BIND
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
bind (Alpine package)
bind (Red Hat package) main
bind99
bind
Dell EMC Unisphere Central

How to mitigate CVE-2016-1285

Install update from vendor's website.

ISC BIND - update to 9.9.8-P4
bind (Alpine package) - update to 9.10.3_p4-r0
Dell EMC Unisphere Central - update to 4.0.7
bind (Red Hat package) main - addressed in versions 9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.4, 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.8, 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.3, 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.5
bind99 - addressed in versions 9.9.8-4.P4.fc22, 9.9.8-4.P4.fc23, 9.9.8-4.P4.fc24
bind - addressed in versions 9.10.3-9.P4.fc22, 9.10.3-12.P4.fc23, 9.10.3-12.P4.fc24

External References

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