CVE-2020-8621 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5