CVE-2020-8617

high

Published 2020-05-28 · Modified 2020-05-28

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.0

Description

RHSA-2020:2338: bind security update (Important)

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-48521 dos multiple

Teppei Fukuda · 2020-05-20

BIND - 'TSIG' Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_dos/dns/bind_tsig_badtime rank 300

BIND TSIG Badtime Query Denial of Service

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`9.16.3-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:9.16.3-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:9.16.3-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:9.16.3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:9.16.3-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:9.16.3-1`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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