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High ELSA-2020-2338 2 CVEs

Important: bind security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Jun 4, 2020 · Updated Jun 4, 2020

Summary

[32:9.11.13-5]
- Limit number of queries triggered by a request (CVE-2020-8616)

[32:9.11.13-4]
- Fix invalid tsig request (CVE-2020-8617)

Fixed packages 17

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 bind 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-chroot 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-devel 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-export-devel 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-export-libs 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-libs 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-libs-lite 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-license 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-lite-devel 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-pkcs11 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-pkcs11-devel 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-pkcs11-libs 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-pkcs11-utils 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-sdb 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-sdb-chroot 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 bind-utils 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2
Oracle Linux · 8 python3-bind 32:9.11.13-5.el8_2

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…