Name | CVE-2020-8620 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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bind9 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u31 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u12 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u16 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u13 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u11 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:9.16.50-1~deb11u2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:9.16.50-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 1:9.18.28-1~deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:9.20.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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bind9 | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
bind9 | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
bind9 | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
bind9 | source | (unstable) | 1:9.16.6-1 | | | |
Notes
[buster] - bind9 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - bind9 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8620
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/commit/9a372f2bce642545164d2b4408eb6c4e301acc5e (v9_16_6)
[jessie] - bind9 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)