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Unscored USN-3088-1 1 CVE

bind9 vulnerability

Published Sep 27, 2016 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled building responses to
certain specially crafted requests. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS bind9 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS bind9 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2016-2776 Public exploit EPSS 89%

    buffer.c in named in ISC BIND 9 before 9.9.9-P3, 9.10.x before 9.10.4-P3, and 9.11.x before 9.11.0rc3 does not properly…

    bind9 bind9 bind Debian Ubuntu Alpine

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2776