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CVE-2016-2776 - log back

CVE-2016-2776 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ High
Remote	+ Remote
Type	+ Denial of service
Description	+ Testing by ISC has uncovered a critical error condition which can occur when a nameserver is constructing a response. A defect in the rendering of messages into packets can cause named to exit with an assertion failure in buffer.c while constructing a response to a query that meets certain criteria. + This assertion can be triggered even if the apparent source address isn't allowed to make queries (i.e. doesn't match 'allow-query').
References	+ https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01419/0
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