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High ALAS2-2020-1426 2 CVEs

Important: bind security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published May 19, 2020 · Updated May 20, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-8617: An assertion failure was found in BIND, which checks the validity of messages containing TSIG resource records. This flaw allows an attacker that knows or successfully guesses the name of the TSIG key used by the server to use a specially-crafted message, potentially causing a BIND server to reach an inconsistent state or cause a denial of service. A majority of BIND servers have an internally-generated TSIG session key whose name is trivially guessable, and that key exposes the vulnerability unless specifically disabled. 1836124: CVE-2020-8617 bind: A logic error in code which checks TSIG validity can be used to trigger an assertion failure in tsig.c CVE-2020-8616: A flaw was found in BIND, where it does not sufficiently limit the number of fetches that can be performed while processing a referral response. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack. The attacker can also exploit this behavior to use the recursing server as a reflector in a reflection attack with a high amplification factor. 1836118: CVE-2020-8616 bind: BIND does not sufficiently limit the number of fetches performed when processing referrals

Fixed packages 17

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 bind 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-chroot 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-debuginfo 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-devel 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-export-devel 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-export-libs 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-libs 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-libs-lite 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-license 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-lite-devel 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-devel 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-libs 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-utils 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-sdb 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-sdb-chroot 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-utils 32:9.11.4-9.P2.amzn2.0.3

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 8.6
    CVE-2020-8616 EPSS 11%

    BIND does not sufficiently limit the number of fetches performed when processing referrals

    A malicious actor who intentionally exploits this lack of effective limitation on the number of fetches performed when processing referrals can, through the use of specially crafted referrals, cause a recursing server to issue a very large number of fetches i…

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2020-8617 Public exploit EPSS 93%

    A logic error in code which checks TSIG validity can be used to trigger an assertion failure in tsig.c

    Using a specially-crafted message, an attacker may potentially cause a BIND server to reach an inconsistent state if the attacker knows (or successfully guesses) the name of a TSIG key used by the server. Since BIND, by default, configures a local session key…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-8616.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-8617.html