ISC BIND: A buffer boundary check assertion in rdataset.c can fail incorrectly during zone transfer (CVE-2020-8618)
4
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
06/17/2020
06/20/2020
06/19/2020
03/24/2023
Description
An attacker who is permitted to send zone data to a server via zone transfer can exploit this to intentionally trigger the assertion failure with a specially constructed zone, denying service to clients.
Solution(s)
- upgrade-isc-bind-latest
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