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NTAP-20180926-0002 — CVE-2016-2848 ISC BIND Vulnerability in NetApp Products

Published 2018-09-26 · Updated 2019-02-07 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: HIGH 7.5 · ONTAP affected: Yes

Official advisory: NTAP-20180926-0002 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.

Product family: ONTAP · Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore · SolidFire / NetApp HCI | ONTAP-relevant | highest CVSS: 7.5

CVEs in this advisory

CVE-2016-2848 — HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · site index

What the CVE records say

CVE-2016-2848 — ISC BIND 9.1.0 through 9.8.4-P2 and 9.9.0 through 9.9.2-P2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via malformed options data in an OPT resource record.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

Data ONTAP Edge
NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node
NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP 6.x

Official fixes

NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault) — vendor fix ↗
NetApp SolidFire & HCI Management Node — vendor fix ↗

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.