#VU703 Denial of Service in Oracle products - CVE-2016-2776

 

#VU703 Denial of Service in Oracle products - CVE-2016-2776

Published: September 28, 2016 / Updated: January 11, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU703
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2776
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vulnerable software:
ISC BIND
Oracle Solaris
Oracle Linux
Oracle VM Server for x86
Software vendor:
ISC
Oracle

Description

The vulnerability allow a remote unauthenticated user to cause denial of service (DoS) on the target system.
The weakness exists due to improper construction of queries responses, which meet certain criteria. By sending specially crafted query to the target service the attacker can trigger an assertion failure in buffer.c that leads to crash and denial of the service.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in DoS condeitions on the vulnerable system.

Remediation

Apply the following patches:
  • BIND 9 version 9.9.9-P3
  • BIND 9 version 9.10.4-P3
  • BIND 9 version 9.11.0rc3

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