#VU32321 Input validation error in ISC BIND - CVE-2016-1285 

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#VU32321 Input validation error in ISC BIND - CVE-2016-1285

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32321
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1285
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
ISC BIND
Software vendor:
ISC

Description

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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