cve-2020-8620
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-08-21 20:50
Modified
2024-09-17 01:40
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.
Impacted products
ISCBIND9
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