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
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
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| 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
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High 8.6CVE-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…
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High 7.5
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…