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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 21, 2020· Updated Sep 17, 2024

A flaw in native PKCS#11 code can lead to a remotely triggerable assertion failure in pk11.c

CVE-2020-8623

Description

In BIND 9.10.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.10.5-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker that can reach a vulnerable system with a specially crafted query packet can trigger a crash. To be vulnerable, the system must: * be running BIND that was built with "--enable-native-pkcs11" * be signing one or more zones with an RSA key * be able to receive queries from a possible attacker

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