debian · CVE-2020-8620

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:00:03 GMT

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CVE-2020-8620 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (bind9), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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