CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2016-2848
HIGHEPSS 98th pctl7.5
CVSS v3
Description
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.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
Impact
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityHigh
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
25.77%probability of exploitation in 30 days
98thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2093.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2094.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2099.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93809
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93814
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037073
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385450
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01433/74/CVE-2016-2848
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0002/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0005/
- https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4adf97c32fcca7d00e5756607fd045f2aab9c3d4
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