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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-2088

resolver.c in named in ISC BIND 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P4, when DNS cookies are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed packet with more than one cookie option.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:30 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2016-2088

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Mar 2016, 23:59 UTC

resolver.c in named in ISC BIND 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P4, when DNS cookies are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed packet with more than one cookie option.

osv:CVE-2016-2088
Complete source record
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