Parsing a malformed DNSSEC key can cause a validating resolver to exit due to a failed assertion in buffer.c. It is possible for a remote attacker to deliberately trigger this condition, for example by using a query which requires a response from a zone containing a deliberately malformed key. (CVE-2015-5722)
Impact
A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the BIG-IP system’s local instance of BIND by using a specially crafted DNS request in configurations that expose BIND to requests from untrusted users. If the BIND process (named) terminates or stops responding, the**bigstart **process will automatically restart the impacted daemon.Note: Recursive servers are at greatest risk from this defect, but some circumstances may exist in which the attack can be successfully exploited against an authoritative server.