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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201701-26">
+ <title>BIND: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in BIND might allow remote attackers to cause a
+ Denial of Service condition.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">bind</product>
+ <announced>2017-01-11</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2017-01-11</revised>
+ <bug>598750</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-dns/bind" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">9.10.4_p4</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">9.10.4_p4</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is a Name Server.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>A defect in BIND’s handling of responses containing a DNAME answer can
+ cause a resolver to exit after encountering an assertion failure in db.c
+ or resolver.c.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DNS request to the BIND
+ resolver possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All BIND users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-dns/bind-9.10.4_p4"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8864">CVE-2016-8864</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-01-04T02:59:06Z">b-man</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-01-11T12:27:02Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>