http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1285 ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of control channel input. By sending a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure in sexpr.c or alist.c and cause the named process to crash. ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when parsing signature records for DNAME resource records. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure in resolver.c or db.c and cause the named process to crash.

This plugin has been deprecated to better accommodate iFix supersedence with replacement plugin aix_bind_advisory12.nasl (plugin id 102124).

Plugin Deprecated

This plugin has been deprecated and is no longer functional.