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CVE-2016-9131

bind: assertion failure while processing response to an ANY query

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 11, 2017

Updated · May 7, 2026

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed a response to an ANY query. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE not specified