ISC BIND Assertion Failure Denial Of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2016-2848)

A denial-of-service vulnerability has been reported in ISC BIND. The vulnerability is due to a defect that can cause the named service to exit with an assertion failure while processing DNS packet with a malformed options section. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted query to the vulnerable server. Successful exploitation could lead to a denial-of-service condition.