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Ubuntu: USN-2874-1 (CVE-2015-8704): Bind vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 19, 2016
Added
Feb 2, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

apl_42.c in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.8-P3, 9.9.x, and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed Address Prefix List (APL) record.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-bind9
Title
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