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.

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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3511-1 bind9 security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2925-1 Bind vulnerabilities
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Solution

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References
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181036.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181037.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178831.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178880.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179904.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179911.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00046.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00053.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00070.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00072.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00075.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00079.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00084.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00013.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=146191105921542&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0562.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0601.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3511 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035236 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2925-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05087821 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01352 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01380 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01438 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1285 cve-icon
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:13.bind.asc cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-07 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1285 cve-icon
History

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.68703}

epss

{'score': 0.67839}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:48:13.763Z

Reserved: 2016-01-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-1285

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:48:13.763Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-03-09T23:59:02.133

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-1285

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-03-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-1285 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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