CVE-2020-8619
Severity
4.9MEDIUM
EPSS
6.9%
top 8.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 17
Latest updateMay 24
Description
In ISC BIND9 versions BIND 9.11.14 -> 9.11.19, BIND 9.14.9 -> 9.14.12, BIND 9.16.0 -> 9.16.3, BIND Supported Preview Edition 9.11.14-S1 -> 9.11.19-S1: Unless a nameserver is providing authoritative service for one or more zones and at least one zone contains an empty non-terminal entry containing an asterisk ("*") character, this defect cannot be encountered. A would-be attacker who is allowed to change zone content could theoretically introduce such a record in order to exploit this condition t…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.2 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages5 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, Fedora 31, 32, Ubuntu Linux 20.04
🔴Vulnerability Details
4📋Vendor Advisories
4Red Hat▶
bind: asterisk character in an empty non-terminal can cause an assertion failure in rbtdb.c↗2020-06-17
Microsoft▶
A buffer boundary check assertion in rdataset.c can fail incorrectly during zone transfer↗2020-06-09
Debian▶
CVE-2020-8619: bind9 - In ISC BIND9 versions BIND 9.11.14 -> 9.11.19, BIND 9.14.9 -> 9.14.12, BIND 9.16...↗2020
💬Community
3Bugzilla▶
CVE-2019-8619 webkitgtk: Multiple memory corruption issues leading to arbitrary code execution↗2020-09-08
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2020-8619 bind: An asterisk character in an empty non-terminal can cause an assertion failure in rbtdb.c [fedora-all]↗2020-06-18
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2020-8619 bind: asterisk character in an empty non-terminal can cause an assertion failure in rbtdb.c↗2020-06-16