QID 330098

Date Published: 2022-03-14

QID 330098: IBM AIX BIND Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (bind_advisory20)

CVE-2020-8622: ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in response processing, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a named resolver to spend most of its CPU time on managing and checking the lame cache and severely degrade resolver performance.

Affected Versions:
AIX 7.1, 7.2,7.3

QID Detection logic:
This QID checks for the vulnerable versions of AIX.

A successful exploit could lead to denial of service vulnerability.

CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.3 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.

Solution

The vendor has released fixes to resolve this vulnerability. Refer to AIX bind to obtain more information.

Vendor References

bind_advisory20 - aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/bind_advisory20.asc

CVEs related to QID 330098

CVE-2021-25219 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
bind_advisory20			aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/bind_advisory20.asc

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