vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2016-2776)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 28, 2016
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

Testing by ISC has uncovered a critical error condition which can occur when a nameserver is constructing a response. A defect in the rendering of messages into packets can cause named to exit with an assertion failure in buffer.c while constructing a response to a query that meets certain criteria.
This assertion can be triggered even if the apparent source address isn't allowed to make queries (i.e. doesn't match 'allow-query').

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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