ISC BIND: A specially crafted large TCP payload can trigger an assertion failure in tcpdns.c (CVE-2020-8620)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
08/21/2020
09/09/2020
09/08/2020
03/24/2023
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.
Solution(s)
- upgrade-isc-bind-latest
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