CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-8620

7.5 HIGH Published 2020-08-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-08-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-617

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• isc bind (>= 9.15.6 <= 9.16.5) • isc bind (>= 9.17.0 <= 9.17.3) • isc bind 9.9.12 • isc bind 9.9.13 • isc bind 9.11.3 • isc bind 9.11.21 • opensuse leap 15.1 • opensuse leap 15.2 • netapp steelstore cloud integrated storage • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness

References