Reachable Assertion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bind (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published21 Aug 2023
- disclosed21 Aug 2020
Introduced: 21 Aug 2020
CVE-2020-8621 (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.
In BIND 9.14.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, If a server is configured with both QNAME minimization and 'forward first' then an attacker who can send queries to it may be able to trigger the condition that will cause the server to crash. Servers that 'forward only' are not affected.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.html
- https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8621
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-19
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200827-0003/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4468-1/
- https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_20_19