CVE-2016-2776: HP HP-Ux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 89.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

buffer.c in named in ISC BIND 9 before 9.9.9-P3, 9.10.x before 9.10.4-P3, and 9.11.x before 9.11.0rc3 does not properly construct responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted query.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 11.31 only
• ISC BIND: up to and including 9.9.9; version 9.10.0 only; version 9.10.1 only; version 9.10.2 only; version 9.10.3 only; version 9.10.4 only; …
• Oracle Linux: version 5.0 only; version 6 only; version 7 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 10.0 only; version 11.3 only
• Oracle Vm Server: version 3.2 only; version 3.3 only; version 3.4 only

Published 2016-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.