CVE-2016-1285

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Published 2016-03-09 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

6.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

4.3

VIR risk

6.8

Description

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.8-P4 and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P4 does not properly handle DNAME records when parsing fetch reply messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed packet to the rndc (aka control channel) interface, related to alist.c and sexpr.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

77%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1285

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01380

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01352

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1285.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-6`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-6`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-6`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-6`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-6`
suse	42.1	affected
debian	7.0	affected
debian	8.0	affected
debian	9.0	affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	15.10	affected
suse	11.4	affected
suse	13.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected
suse	11	affected
suse	12	affected
fedora	22	affected
fedora	23	affected
fedora	24	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
isc	bind	`{"startIncluding":"9.0.0","endExcluding":"9.9.8"}`	`9.9.8`
isc	bind	`9.9.8`
isc	bind	`9.10.3`
suse	linux_enterprise_debuginfo	`11`
suse	manager	`2.1`
suse	manager_proxy	`2.1`
suse	openstack_cloud	`5`
juniper	vsrx	`-`

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.