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Ubuntu: USN-3108-1 (CVE-2016-2848): Bind vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3108-1 (CVE-2016-2848): Bind vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/21/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/21/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

ISC BIND 9.1.0 through 9.8.4-P2 and 9.9.0 through 9.9.2-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via malformed options data in an OPT resource record.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bind9

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