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Ubuntu: USN-4468-1 (CVE-2020-8620): Bind vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4468-1 (CVE-2020-8620): Bind vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/21/2020
Created
08/25/2020
Added
08/22/2020
Modified
05/01/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bind9

References

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