vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-8620: BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 21, 2020
Added
Aug 31, 2020
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-dns-bind
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