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NTAP-20160722-0002 — CVE-2016-2775 ISC BIND Vulnerability in Multiple NetApp Products
Published 2016-07-22 · Updated 2017-03-08 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20160722-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: ONTAP · OnCommand family | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
Impact
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against the lwresd and named daemons.
Affected products
- Clustered Data ONTAP
- Data ONTAP Edge
- Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
- NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 7.2 and above
- OnCommand Balance
- OnCommand Performance Manager (Unified Manager Performance Pkg)
- OnCommand Unified Manager for Clustered Data ONTAP
References
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00913/0/BIND-9-Security-Vulnerability-Matrix.html ↗
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2775 ↗
- https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01393/74/CVE-2016-2775 ↗
- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-2775 ↗
What to do
- Check the affected products listed above against the official advisory's affected-versions table — that is where the exact ONTAP 9 release, ONTAP tool, or management product versions are named.
- If affected and a fixed release exists, plan the upgrade — see the ONTAP upgrade runbook.
- If exploitation is listed as "active", treat remediation as urgent and review exposure (management LIFs, ONTAP S3, SnapMirror endpoints).
- Harden in parallel: security hardening baseline and ransomware protection on ONTAP.
Related reading
- Common ONTAP problems (FAQ) — plain-language symptoms and fixes
- ONTAP security hardening — baseline lockdown guidance
- Ransomware protection on ONTAP — SnapLock, SnapMirror vaulting, Anomaly Detection
- ONTAP error messages index — EMS/WAFL/NFS/SnapMirror messages
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2016