A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed a response to an ANY query. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response.
Find out more about CVE-2016-9131 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 7.2 (bind) | RHSA-2017:1583 | 2017-06-28 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (bind) | RHSA-2017:0062 | 2017-01-16 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | bind | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | bind97 | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | bind | Not affected |
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