CVE-2016-1285

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed certain control channel input. A remote attacker able to send a malformed packet to the control channel could use this flaw to cause named to crash.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Restrict access to the control channel (by using the "controls" configuration statement in named.conf) to allow connection only from trusted systems.

Note that if no "controls" statement is present, named defaults to allowing control channel connections only from localhost (127.0.0.1 and ::1) if and only if the file rndc.key exists in the configuration directory and contains valid key syntax. If rndc.key is not present and no "controls" statement is present in named.conf, named will not accept commands on the control channel.