CVE-2016-1285

Publication date 9 March 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.8-P4 and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P4 does not properly handle DNAME records when parsing fetch reply messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed packet to the rndc (aka control channel) interface, related to alist.c and sexpr.c.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
bind9	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Fixed 1:9.9.5.dfsg-11ubuntu1.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.8
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.16

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.8 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2925-1
Bind vulnerabilities
9 March 2016