High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 21, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-8620
CVE-2020-8620
Description
In BIND 9.15.6 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, An attacker who can establish a TCP connection with the server and send data on that connection can exploit this to trigger the assertion failure, causing the server to exit.
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Affected products
40- osv-coords38 versionspkg:apk/chainguard/bindpkg:apk/chainguard/bind-devpkg:apk/chainguard/bind-dnssec-rootpkg:apk/chainguard/bind-dnssec-toolspkg:apk/chainguard/bind-docpkg:apk/chainguard/bind-libspkg:apk/chainguard/bind-pluginspkg:apk/chainguard/bind-toolspkg:apk/wolfi/bindpkg:apk/wolfi/bind-devpkg:apk/wolfi/bind-dnssec-rootpkg:apk/wolfi/bind-dnssec-toolspkg:apk/wolfi/bind-docpkg:apk/wolfi/bind-libspkg:apk/wolfi/bind-pluginspkg:apk/wolfi/bind-toolspkg:rpm/opensuse/bind&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/bind&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/bind&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/libuv&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/libuv&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/sysuser-tools&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/sysuser-tools&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/bind&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/suse/sysuser-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/sysuser-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/sysuser-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/sysuser-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/sysuser-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/sysuser-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/sysuser-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015
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- (no CPE)range: < 9.16.6-lp151.11.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.16.6-lp152.14.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.16.20-1.4
- (no CPE)range: < 1.18.0-lp151.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.18.0-lp152.4.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0-lp151.4.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.0-lp152.5.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.16.6-12.32.1
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- (no CPE)range: < 2.0-4.2.8
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Patches
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References
7- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8620nvdVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-19nvdThird Party Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200827-0003/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4468-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_20_19nvdThird Party Advisory
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