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Red Hat: CVE-2020-12662: CVE-2020-12662 unbound: amplification of an incoming query into a large number of queries directed to a target (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2020-12662: CVE-2020-12662 unbound: amplification of an incoming query into a large number of queries directed to a target (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/19/2020
Created
06/10/2020
Added
06/10/2020
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

Unbound before 1.10.1 has Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume, aka an "NXNSAttack" issue. This is triggered by random subdomains in the NSDNAME in NS records.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-python3-unbound
  • redhat-upgrade-python3-unbound-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-unbound
  • redhat-upgrade-unbound-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-unbound-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-unbound-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-unbound-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-unbound-libs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-unbound-python

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