RULE(RULE ID:105643)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2021-10-28
Rule Name: ISC BIND TCP Receive Buffer Length Assertion Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2020-8620)
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Rule Protection Details
Description: In BIND 9.15.6 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, An attacker who can establish a TCP connection with the server and send data on that connection can exploit this to trigger the assertion failure, causing the server to exit.
Impact: An attacker can launch a denial of service attack by exploiting the vulnerability successfully.
Affected OS: Windows, Linux, Others
Reference: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00041.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00044.html
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8620
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-19
Solutions
The vendor has released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit:
https://www.isc.org/bind/