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CVE-2016-1286

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1286 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting ISC BIND versions 9.x before 9.9.8-P4 and 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P4, as well as various distributions like Debian, Fedora, and SUSE. A remote attacker can trigger an assertion failure and daemon exit by sending a crafted signature record for a DNAME record. With a CVSS score of 8.6 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 97/100 and media coverage indicate significant potential impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 9.0.0, < 9.9.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.10.0, < 9.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.9.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.8:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.9.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.8:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.9.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:9.9.8:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.6HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
62.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6210 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: bind97-32:9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: bind-30:9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: bind-32:9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: bind-32:9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: bind-32:9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: bind-32:9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Extended Update SupportFixed in: bind-32:9.8.2-0.30.rc1.el6_6.5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: bind-32:9.9.4-29.el7_2.3
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: bind

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-1286Important

bind: malformed signature records for DNAME records can trigger assertion failure

Mar 9, 2016

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181036.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181037.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178831.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178880.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179904.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179911.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00046.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00053.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00070.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00072.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00075.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00079.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00084.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00013.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
marc.info
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0562.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0601.html
Third Party Advisory
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
Third Party Advisory
kb.isc.org / article/AA-01353
Vendor Advisory
kb.isc.org / article/AA-01380
Release NotesVendor Advisory
kb.isc.org / article/AA-01438
Broken LinkVendor Advisory
security.freebsd.org / advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:13.bind.asc
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201610-07
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3511
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1035237
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2925-1
Third Party Advisory