CVE-2020-8616

Summary

CVECVE-2020-8616
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-19 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:26:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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 in an attempt to process the referral. This has at least two potential effects: The performance of the recursing server can potentially be degraded by the additional work required to perform these fetches, and The attacker can exploit this behavior to use the recursing server as a reflector in a reflection attack with a high amplification factor.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Isc Bind 9.10.5 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.10.7 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.3 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.5 s3 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.5 s5 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.6 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.7 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.8 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.12.4 p1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.12.4 p2 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.9.3 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.10.5 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.10.7 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.3 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.5 s3 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.5 s5 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.6 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.7 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.11.8 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.12.4 p1 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.12.4 p2 All All
Application Isc Bind 9.9.3 s1 All All
Application Isc Bind All All All All
Application Isc Bind All All All All
Application Isc Bind All All All All
Application Isc Bind All All All All
Application Isc Bind All All All All
Application Isc Bind All All All All
Application Isc Bind All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1699-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CVE-2020-8616: BIND does not sufficiently limit the number of fetches performed when processing referrals - Security Advisories CONFIRM kb.isc.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: bind-9.11.19-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2227-1] bind9 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: bind-9.11.19-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Synology Inc. CONFIRM www.synology.com
NXNSAttack MISC www.nxnsattack.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: bind-9.11.19-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - Two vulnerabilities disclosed in BIND (CVE-2020-8616 and CVE-2020-8617) MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1701-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: bind-9.11.19-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
May 2020 ISC BIND Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
USN-4365-1: Bind vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
USN-4365-2: Bind vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4689-1 bind9 DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: ISC would like to thank Lior Shafir and Yehuda Afek of Tel Aviv University and Anat Bremler-Barr of Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya for discovering and reporting this issue.

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296074 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 22.69.4 Missing (CPUAPR2020)
  • 377062 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for bind (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0095)
  • 390244 Oracle Managed Virtualization (VM) Server for x86 Security Update for bind (OVMSA-2020-0021)
  • 500054 Alpine Linux Security Update for bind
  • 503735 Alpine Linux Security Update for bind
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