Reachable Assertion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bind9  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-BIND9-608005
  • published21 Aug 2020
  • disclosed21 Aug 2020

Introduced: 21 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-8620  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bind9 package and not the bind9 package as distributed by Debian.

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.