Reachable Assertion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bind9  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1910-BIND9-610476
  • published18 Jun 2020
  • disclosed17 Jun 2020

Introduced: 17 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-8618  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

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

An attacker who is permitted to send zone data to a server via zone transfer can exploit this to intentionally trigger the assertion failure with a specially constructed zone, denying service to clients.