CVE-2016-1285 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-1285?

CVE-2016-1285 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 9 Mar 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1285?

It affects 14 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Isc Bind, Juniper Junos, Opensuse Leap and 8 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1285?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-1285 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1285 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1285, GHSA-g4mp-qjqq-f2f5, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1285.