CVE-2020-8620
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-08-21 20:50
Modified
2024-09-17 01:40
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In BIND 9.15.6 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, An attacker who can establish a TCP connection with the server and send data on that connection can exploit this to trigger the assertion failure, causing the server to exit.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| security-officer@isc.org | http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.html | Third Party Advisory | |
| security-officer@isc.org | http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.html | Third Party Advisory | |
| security-officer@isc.org | https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8620 | Vendor Advisory | |
| security-officer@isc.org | https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-19 | Third Party Advisory | |
| security-officer@isc.org | https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200827-0003/ | Third Party Advisory | |
| security-officer@isc.org | https://usn.ubuntu.com/4468-1/ | Third Party Advisory | |
| security-officer@isc.org | https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_20_19 | Third Party Advisory |
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