CVE-2016-2848

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 25.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-10-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

ISC BIND 9.1.0 through 9.8.4-P2 and 9.9.0 through 9.9.2-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via malformed options data in an OPT resource record.

Affected products

ISC BIND: 9.1, 9.1.0-rc1, 9.1.1, 9.1.1-rc1, 9.1.1-rc2, 9.1.1-rc3 (+258)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2093.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2094.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2099.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93809
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93814
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037073
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385450
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01433/74/CVE-2016-2848
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0002/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0005/
https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4adf97c32fcca7d00e5756607fd045f2aab9c3d4
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2093.html

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