CVE-2016-8864: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 38.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

named in ISC BIND 9.x before 9.9.9-P4, 9.10.x before 9.10.4-P4, and 9.11.x before 9.11.0-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a DNAME record in the answer section of a response to a recursive query, related to db.c and resolver.c.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• ISC BIND: from 9.0.0, before 9.9.9 (fixed in 9.9.9); from 9.10.0, before 9.10.4 (fixed in 9.10.4); version 9.9.9 only; version 9.10.4 only; version 9.11.0 only
• Netapp Data Ontap Edge: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 6.7 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 6.2 only; version 6.4 only; version 6.5 only; version 6.6 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 6.5 only; version 6.6 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2016-11-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.