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 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.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
Source | ID | Title |
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DLA-2227-1 | bind9 security update |
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DSA-4689-1 | bind9 security update |
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EUVD-2020-29464 | 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 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. |
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USN-4365-1 | Bind vulnerabilities |
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USN-4365-2 | Bind vulnerabilities |
Fixes
Solution
Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of BIND: BIND 9.11.19 BIND 9.14.12 BIND 9.16.3 BIND Supported Preview Edition is a special feature preview branch of BIND provided to eligible ISC support customers. BIND 9.11.19-S1
Workaround
None
References
History
No history.

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: isc
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-16T23:55:28.601Z
Reserved: 2020-02-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-8616

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Status : Modified
Published: 2020-05-19T14:15:11.877
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:39:07.857
Link: CVE-2020-8616


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