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Red Hat: CVE-2016-8864: Important: bind security and bug fix update (RHSA-2017:1583)

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2016-8864: Important: bind security and bug fix update (RHSA-2017:1583)
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2016-11-02T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2016, 8864, Important, redhat-upgrade-bind, redhat-upgrade-bind-chroot, redhat-upgrade-bind-debuginfo, redhat-upgrade-bind-devel, redhat-upgrade-bind-libs, redhat-upgrade-bind-libs-lite, redhat-upgrade-bind-license, redhat-upgrade-bind-lite-devel, redhat-upgrade-bind-pkcs11, redhat-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-devel, redhat-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-libs, redhat-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-utils, redhat-upgrade-bind-sdb, redhat-upgrade-bind-sdb-chroot, redhat-upgrade-bind-utils, Severity 5

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Nov 2, 2016

Added

Nov 4, 2016

Modified

Feb 19, 2026

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.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-bindredhat-upgrade-bind-chrootredhat-upgrade-bind-debuginforedhat-upgrade-bind-develredhat-upgrade-bind-libsredhat-upgrade-bind-libs-literedhat-upgrade-bind-licenseredhat-upgrade-bind-lite-develredhat-upgrade-bind-pkcs11redhat-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-develredhat-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-libsredhat-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-utilsredhat-upgrade-bind-sdbredhat-upgrade-bind-sdb-chrootredhat-upgrade-bind-utils

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