Denial of Service Vulnerability in BIND DNS by ISC
CVE-2016-9444

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Isc
Status
Bind
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 January 2017

What is CVE-2016-9444?

This vulnerability impacts various versions of ISC BIND, allowing remote attackers to exploit the system through a specially crafted DS resource record, leading to assertion failures and causing the daemon to exit unexpectedly. This could result in service interruptions, making the DNS server unresponsive to legitimate requests.

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References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95393
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037582
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-01
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO

EPSS Score

43% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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