Upstream information

CVE-2016-2848 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 5 7.8
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Network Network
Access Complexity Low Low
Authentication None None
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact Partial Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3

Note from the SUSE Security Team

This issue only affects bind versions up to 9.9.2-P2 / 9.8.4-P2. SUSE has updated bind to 9.9.6 and newer versions already some time ago, so no SUSE Linux Enterprise version is affected.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1005001 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

  • TID7018170, published Sat Oct 22 01:19:15 CEST 2016


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS bind Not affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 bind Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 bind Not affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Oct 17 10:15:30 2016
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 19:08:05 2023