CVE-2016-2775: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 63.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.9-P2, 9.10.x before 9.10.4-P2, and 9.11.x before 9.11.0b2, when lwresd or the named lwres option is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a long request that uses the lightweight resolver protocol.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 23 only; version 24 only
• HP HP-Ux: version b.11.31 only
• ISC BIND: from 9.0, up to and including 9.9.8; from 9.10.0, up to and including 9.10.3; version 9.9.9 only; version 9.10.4 only; version 9.11.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2016-07-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.