Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-8864

Title: Netapp Data Ontap Edge Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-8864.

CWE Category CWE-617

Published Date Nov 02, 2016

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

38.73%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-8864: 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.

Impacted Vendors

netapp 3

isc 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2141.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2142.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2615.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2871.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3703 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94067 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037156 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1583 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05381687 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01434 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01435 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01436 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01437 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01438 https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:34.bind.asc https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-26 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0005/ http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2141.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2142.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2615.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2871.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3703 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94067 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037156 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1583 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05381687 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01434 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01435 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01436 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01437 https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01438 https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:34.bind.asc https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-26 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180926-0005/

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-8864 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 02, 2016 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.