CVE-2020-8618
An attacker who is permitted to send zone data to a server via zone transfer can exploit this to intentionally trigger the assertion failure with a specially constructed zone, denying service to clients.
- Affected products
- Bind, Bind Server, Linuxmint, Suse, Ubuntu
- Isc Bind
- ≤ 9.16.3
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.9 MEDIUM
- EPSS
- 1.8% (77th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-617
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-06-17
Fix
Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of BIND: BIND 9.16.4
Workaround
None
CVE-2020-8618 at NVD
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