RULE(RULE ID:105210)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2019-02-25
Rule Name: ISC BIND Buffer.c Assertion Failure Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2016-2776)
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CVE ID:
Rule Protection Details
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.
Impact: An attacker can launch a denial of service attack by exploiting the vulnerability successfully.
Affected OS: Other Unix, Linux
Reference: SecurityFocusBID:93188
ExploitDB:40453
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1944.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1945.html
Solutions
More advisories have been published on the website, please visit for more suggestions:
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01419