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Ubuntu: USN-3119-1 (CVE-2016-8864): Bind vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3119-1 (CVE-2016-8864): Bind vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/01/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/01/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bind9

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