CVE-2016-2776

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 89.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

buffer.c in named in ISC BIND 9 before 9.9.9-P3, 9.10.x before 9.10.4-P3, and 9.11.x before 9.11.0rc3 does not properly construct responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted query.

Affected products

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) HP-UX: 11.31
ISC BIND: through 9.9.9; 9.10.0, 9.10.0-a1, 9.10.0-a2, 9.10.0-b1, 9.10.0-b2, 9.10.0-p1 (+33)
Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 5.0, 6, 7
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 10.0, 11.3
Oracle Vm Server: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1944.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1945.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2099.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2016-3090566.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinoct2016-3090547.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93188
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036903
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05321107
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01419/0
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01435
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01436

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