ALPINE-CVE-2020-8622

ALPINE-CVE-2020-8622

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In BIND 9.0.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker on the network path for a TSIG-signed request, or operating the server receiving the TSIG-signed request, could send a truncated response to that request, triggering an assertion failure, causing the server to exit. Alternately, an off-path attacker would have to correctly guess when a TSIG-signed request was sent, along with other characteristics of the packet and message, and spoof a truncated response to trigger an assertion failure, causing the server to exit.

CVSS 6.5 · Medium · Fix available

Published

2020-08-21T21:15:12.247Z

Updated

2026-10-26T11:17:55.188022199Z

Stack: system

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