A defect in the rendering of messages into packets can cause named to exit with an assertion failure in buffer.c while constructing a response to a query that meets certain criteria. This assertion can be triggered even if the apparent source address isnt allowed to make queries.
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BIND 9 remote denial of service exploit.
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