CVE-2016-9444

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 18.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.9-P5, 9.10.x before 9.10.4-P5, and 9.11.x before 9.11.0-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted DS resource record in an answer.

Affected products

ISC BIND: 9.0, 9.0.0-rc1, 9.0.0-rc2, 9.0.0-rc3, 9.0.0-rc4, 9.0.0-rc5 (+311)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0062.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3758
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95393
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037582
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1583
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05381687
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01441/74/CVE-2016-9444
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-01
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0005/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0062.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3758
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95393

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