ubuntu · CVE-2016-8864

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:12:49 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-8864 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (bind9), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 6.

Description:

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.9-P4, 9.10.x before 9.10.4-P4, and 9.11.x before 9.11.0-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a DNAME record in the answer section of a response to a recursive query, related to db.c and resolver.c.

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