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Servers and applications

CVE-2020-8618

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.

Severity
Medium 4.9
Published
17 Jun 2020
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
BIND 9Servers and applications · cpe:a:isc:bind
  • From 9.16.0 up to 9.16.3

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8618
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8618