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CVE-2016-2848 in the critical feed json

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 daem…

published 2016-10-21 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-3921

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
25.8%
EPSS 25.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • isc bind 9.9.9-P3, 9.10.4-P3
  • bind9 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:9.9.3.dfsg.P2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2848

  • bind97 RHEL 5 32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8
  • bind97-libs RHEL 5 32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8
  • bind97-utils RHEL 5 32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8
  • bind97-chroot RHEL 5 32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8
  • bind RHEL 5 30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10
  • bind RHEL 6 32:9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2
  • bind-sdb RHEL 5 30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10
  • bind-sdb RHEL 6 32:9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2099RHSA-2016:2094RHSA-2016:2093

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-2848 updated cvss 7.5

bind: assertion failure triggered by a packet with malformed options

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 bind
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) bind 9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10, bind97 9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8, bind-sdb 9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10, bind-libs 9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10, bind-utils 9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10, bind97-libs 9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) bind 9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10, bind-sdb 9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10, bind-libs 9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10, bind-utils 9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) bind 9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10, bind97 9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8, bind97-libs 9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8, bind-chroot 9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.10, bind97-utils 9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8, bind97-chroot 9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2093
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.6) bind 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.6, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.6, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node EUS (v. 6.7) bind 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.8, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.8, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2099
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2093
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional EUS (v. 6.6) bind 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.6, bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.6, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional EUS (v. 6.7) bind 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.8, bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.8, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2099
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2093
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.2) bind 9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.5, bind-libs 9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.5, bind-utils 9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.5, bind-chroot 9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.4) bind 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.9, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.9, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.9, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AUS (v. 6.5) bind 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.6) bind 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.6, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.6, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.6, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) bind 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.8, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.8, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.8, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2099
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2093
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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 6.2) bind 9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.5, bind-sdb 9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 6.4) bind 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.9, bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional AUS (v. 6.5) bind 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4, bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.6) bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 6.7) bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional TUS (v. 6.5) bind 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4, bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server TUS (v. 6.5) bind 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2099
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) bind 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-libs 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-utils 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2, bind-chroot 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) bind-sdb 9.8.2-0.47.rc1.el6_8.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2093
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 bind, bind-sdb, bind-libs, bind-utils, bind-chroot, bind-pkcs11, +6 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

25.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Consolidate version constraints.