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ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2020-8618) - Linux
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
2 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
An assertion check in BIND (that is meant to prevent going beyond the end of a buffer when processing incoming data) can be incorrectly triggered by a large response during zone transfer.
Affected Software
Affected Software
BIND 9.16.0 through 9.16.3.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 9.16.4 or later.