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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-8624: Security patch for bind (ALAS-2020-1564)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2020-8624: Security patch for bind (ALAS-2020-1564)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/21/2020
Created
12/11/2020
Added
12/10/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

In BIND 9.9.12 -> 9.9.13, 9.10.7 -> 9.10.8, 9.11.3 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.1 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.12-S1 -> 9.9.13-S1, 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker who has been granted privileges to change a specific subset of the zone's content could abuse these unintended additional privileges to update other contents of the zone.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-chroot
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-export-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-export-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-libs-lite
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-license
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-lite-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-pkcs11
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-utils
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-sdb
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-sdb-chroot
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-utils

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