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Red Hat: CVE-2019-16866: unbound: uninitialized memory accesses leads to crash via a crafted NOTIFY query

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2019-16866: unbound: uninitialized memory accesses leads to crash via a crafted NOTIFY query
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2019-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2019, 16866, unbound, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 5

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Oct 3, 2019

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Jul 9, 2025

Description

Unbound before 1.9.4 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to trigger a crash via a crafted NOTIFY query. The source IP address of the query must match an access-control rule.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package

References

NVD-CVE-2019-16866

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