CVE-2016-2088

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 22.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

resolver.c in named in ISC BIND 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P4, when DNS cookies are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed packet with more than one cookie option.

Affected products

ISC BIND: 9.10.0, 9.10.0-a1, 9.10.0-a2, 9.10.0-b1, 9.10.0-b2, 9.10.0-p1 (+23)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181036.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178831.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179904.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84290
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035238
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01351
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01380
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-07
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181036.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178831.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179904.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84290

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