BIND: Denial of Service

BIND: Denial of Service A vulnerability in BIND might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. bind January 11, 2017 January 11, 2017: 1 598750 remote 9.10.4_p4 9.10.4_p4

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is a Name Server.

A defect in BIND’s handling of responses containing a DNAME answer can cause a resolver to exit after encountering an assertion failure in db.c or resolver.c.

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DNS request to the BIND resolver possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All BIND users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/bind-9.10.4_p4"

CVE-2016-8864 b-man whissi