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HP-UX: CVE-2016-2776: BIND Service running named, Remote Denial of Service (DoS)

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HP-UX: CVE-2016-2776: BIND Service running named, Remote Denial of Service (DoS)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/28/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/11/2017
Modified
01/08/2018

Description

buffer.c in named in ISC BIND 9 before 9.9.9-P3, 9.10.x before 9.10.4-P3, and 9.11.x before 9.11.0rc3 does not properly construct responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted query.

Solution(s)

  • hpux-update-nameservice-bind-aux
  • hpux-update-nameservice-bind-run

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