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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Analysis of ISC BIND DNAME Answer Handling DoS (CVE-2016-8864)

A defect in BIND's handling of a DNAME answer was fixed in a critical update from the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) several days ago. This defect affects all BIND recursive servers, and can be exploited to remotely take down recursive servers by sending a simple DNAME answer thereby causing a denial of service (DoS.)



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