ubuntu · CVE-2016-1285

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-03-09 20:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:54:02 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-1285 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (bind9), 7 status rows across 7 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 4, not-affected 3.

Description:

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.

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