CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-96888

7.5 HIGH Published 2026-10-21 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-10-21
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476, CWE-617

Description

A BIND resolver that is configured with both a "redirect" zone and "qname-minimization strict" may abort with an assertion failure while processing the redirect. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.0 through 9.18.50, 9.20.0 through 9.20.29, 9.21.0 through 9.21.26, 9.16.8-S1 through 9.18.50-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.29-S1.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
  • CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness

References