CVE-2020-8621
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-08-21 20:50
Modified
2024-09-16 16:18
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Attempting QNAME minimization after forwarding can lead to an assertion failure in resolver.c
References
security-officer@isc.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security-officer@isc.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security-officer@isc.orghttps://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8621Vendor Advisory
security-officer@isc.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-19Third Party Advisory
security-officer@isc.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200827-0003/Third Party Advisory
security-officer@isc.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4468-1/Third Party Advisory
security-officer@isc.orghttps://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_20_19Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
ISCBIND9
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