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ISC BIND Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities - CVE-2020-8616, CVE-2020-8617 (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
ISC BIND is prone to multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.
Insight
Insight
ISC BIND is prone to multiple denial of service vulnerabilities: - BIND does not sufficiently limit the number of fetches performed when processing referrals (CVE-2020-8616) - A logic error in code which checks TSIG validity can be used to trigger an assertion failure in tsig.c (CVE-2020-8617)
Affected Software
Affected Software
BIND 9.0.0 - 9.11.18, 9.12.0 - 9.12.4-P2, 9.14.0 - 9.14.11, 9.16.0 - 9.16.2, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.1 and 9.9.3-S1 - 9.11.18-S1. Also affects all releases in the obsolete 9.13 and 9.15 development branches.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 9.11.19, 9.14.12, 9.16.3, 9.11.19-S1 or later.