Vulnerability CVE-2020-8620
Published: 2020-08-21

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.

Type:

CWE-617

 (Reachable Assertion)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
ISC -> BIND 

 References:
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8620
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200827-0003/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4468-1/
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