CVE-2020-8618

A buffer boundary check assertion in rdataset.c can fail incorrectly during zone transfer

Medium · published June 17, 2020

CVSS v3.1
4.9
EPSS
2%
Percentile
78.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An attacker who is permitted to send zone data to a server via zone transfer can exploit this to intentionally trigger the assertion failure with a specially constructed zone, denying service to clients.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01848 · 78.9th percentile
Published
2020-06-17T21:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 JUN 21:20Z
    A buffer boundary check assertion in rdataset.c can fail incorrectly during zone transfer
    cvelistv5