DNS: ISC BIND rndc Control Channel Assertion Failure Denial of Service
This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability against ISC BIND9. A successful attack can lead to denial-of-service.
Extended 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.
Affected Products
Canonical ubuntu_linux
References
CVE: CVE-2016-1285
URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1035293 https://kb.isc.org/article/aa-01352
Short Name
DNS:ISC-BIND9-DOS
Severity
Major
Recommended
True
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
DNS
Keywords
Assertion BIND CVE-2016-1285 Channel Control Denial Failure ISC Service of rndc
Release Date
05/02/2016
Supported Platforms
srx-branch-12.3
srx-19.3
srx-branch-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.2
srx-branch-19.4
vsrx-19.4
mx-12.3
mx-19.4
vmx-19.4
mx-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.4
srx-19.4
vsrx-12.3
vmx-19.3
vsrx-19.2
srx-12.3
Sigpack Version
3657
Port
TCP/953
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors
Suse
Fedoraproject
Opensuse
Isc
Debian
Canonical
CVSS Score
4.3