CVE-2016-2848
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.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 25.8%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 25.77% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- isc/bind
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 25.8% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2093.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2094.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2099.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93809
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93814
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037073
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385450Issue Tracking
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01433/74/CVE-2016-2848Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0002/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0005/
- https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4adf97c32fcca7d00e5756607fd045f2aab9c3d4
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2093.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2094.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2099.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93809
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93814
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037073
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385450Issue Tracking
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01433/74/CVE-2016-2848Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0002/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0005/
- https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4adf97c32fcca7d00e5756607fd045f2aab9c3d4
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.