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Ubuntu: USN-4468-1 (CVE-2020-8623): Bind vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4468-1 (CVE-2020-8623): Bind vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/21/2020
Created
08/25/2020
Added
08/22/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

In BIND 9.10.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.10.5-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker that can reach a vulnerable system with a specially crafted query packet can trigger a crash. To be vulnerable, the system must: * be running BIND that was built with "--enable-native-pkcs11" * be signing one or more zones with an RSA key * be able to receive queries from a possible attacker

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bind9

References

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