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Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bind  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-BIND-5846902
  • published21 Aug 2023
  • disclosed19 May 2020
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Introduced: 19 May 2020

CVE-2020-8616  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Wolfi security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Wolfi:latest.

NVD Description

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

A malicious actor who intentionally exploits this lack of effective limitation on the number of fetches performed when processing referrals can, through the use of specially crafted referrals, cause a recursing server to issue a very large number of fetches in an attempt to process the referral. This has at least two potential effects: The performance of the recursing server can potentially be degraded by the additional work required to perform these fetches, and The attacker can exploit this behavior to use the recursing server as a reflector in a reflection attack with a high amplification factor.

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