Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.144437
Category:	Denial of Service
Title:	ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2020-8621) - Linux
Summary:	ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service vulnerability.
Description:	Summary: ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: While query forwarding and QNAME minimization are mutually incompatible, BIND did sometimes allow QNAME minimization when continuing with recursion after 'forward first' did not result in an answer. In these cases the data used by QNAME minimization might be inconsistent, leading to an assertion failure causing the server to exit. Vulnerability Impact: 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. Affected Software/OS: BIND 9.14.0 - 9.16.5 and 9.17.0 - 9.17.3. Solution: Update to version 9.16.6, 9.17.4 or later. CVSS Score: 4.3 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-8621 https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8621 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-19 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2020:1699 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2020:1701 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4468-1/
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