HIGH 7.5 Microsoft

CVE-2020-8620

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.

Microsoft Security Update 2020-Aug: 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.

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Published: 2020-08-11 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-21
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5 was published on 2020-08-11 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 bind 9.16.3-2 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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