ubuntu-cve-2016-2848
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-10-21 00:00
Modified
2025-07-16 04:51
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "bind9",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "bind9-doc",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "bind9-host",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "bind9utils",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "dnsutils",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "host",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libbind-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libbind9-90",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libdns100",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libisc95",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libisccc90",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libisccfg90",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "liblwres90",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "lwresd",
            "binary_version": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "bind9",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/bind9@1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1:9.9.3.dfsg.P2-4ubuntu1",
        "1:9.9.3.dfsg.P2-4ubuntu2",
        "1:9.9.3.dfsg.P2-4ubuntu3",
        "1:9.9.5.dfsg-2",
        "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3",
        "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1",
        "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.2",
        "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.3",
        "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.4",
        "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.5",
        "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.6",
        "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.7",
        "1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.8"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2848",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:51:12Z",
  "published": "2016-10-21T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2848"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01433/0"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3108-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2848"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-3108-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2016-2848"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:43:27Z"
}



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