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ISC BIND: An unusually-formed DS record response could cause an assertion failure (CVE-2016-9444)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Jan 12, 2017

Added

Jan 13, 2017

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.9-P5, 9.10.x before 9.10.4-P5, and 9.11.x before 9.11.0-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted DS resource record in an answer.

Solution

upgrade-isc-bind-latest

References

CVE-2016-9444
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-9444
CWE-20
EUVD-EUVD-2016-10254
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-10254
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01441/0
https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01441

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