CVE-2015-8704
apl_42.c in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.8-P3, 9.9.x, and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed Address Prefix List (APL) record.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 20.7%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
apl_42.c in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.8-P3, 9.9.x, and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed Address Prefix List (APL) record.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 20.70% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- isc/bind
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 18.3% on 21 September 2026 to 20.7% on 4 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176564.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178045.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175973.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175977.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00022.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00023.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00033.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145680832702035&w=2Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0073.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0074.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3449
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2016-3090566.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81329
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034739
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2874-1
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01335Vendor Advisory
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01380Vendor Advisory
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01438
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-07
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:08.bind.asc
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176564.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178045.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175973.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.