http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8622 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8622 ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an assertion failure when attempting to verify a truncated response to a TSIG-signed request. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to exit.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has bind packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - 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 to cause denial of     service, though we consider the use of this vector unlikely because any such attack would require a     significant privilege level and be easily traceable. (CVE-2020-8619)

  - In BIND 9.0.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the     BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker on the network path for a TSIG-signed request, or operating     the server receiving the TSIG-signed request, could send a truncated response to that request, triggering     an assertion failure, causing the server to exit. Alternately, an off-path attacker would have to     correctly guess when a TSIG-signed request was sent, along with other characteristics of the packet and     message, and spoof a truncated response to trigger an assertion failure, causing the server to exit.
    (CVE-2020-8622)

  - In BIND 9.10.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.10.5-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the     BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker that can reach a vulnerable system with a specially crafted     query packet can trigger a crash. To be vulnerable, the system must: * be running BIND that was built with
    --enable-native-pkcs11 * be signing one or more zones with an RSA key * be able to receive queries from     a possible attacker (CVE-2020-8623)

  - In BIND 9.9.12 -> 9.9.13, 9.10.7 -> 9.10.8, 9.11.3 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.1 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also     affects 9.9.12-S1 -> 9.9.13-S1, 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An     attacker who has been granted privileges to change a specific subset of the zone's content could abuse     these unintended additional privileges to update other contents of the zone. (CVE-2020-8624)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4468-1 advisory.

    Emanuel Almeida discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain TCP payloads. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-8620)

    Joseph Gullo discovered that Bind incorrectly handled QNAME minimization when used in certain     configurations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a     denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-8621)

    Dave Feldman, Jeff Warren, and Joel Cunningham discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain truncated     responses to a TSIG-signed request. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to     crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-8622)

    Lyu Chiy discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain queries. A remote attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-8623)

    Joop Boonen discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain subdomain update-policy rules. A remote     attacker granted privileges to change certain parts of a zone could use this issue to change other     contents of the zone, contrary to expectations. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04     LTS. (CVE-2020-8624)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5011 advisory.

  - In BIND 9.0.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the     BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker on the network path for a TSIG-signed request, or operating     the server receiving the TSIG-signed request, could send a truncated response to that request, triggering     an assertion failure, causing the server to exit. Alternately, an off-path attacker would have to     correctly guess when a TSIG-signed request was sent, along with other characteristics of the packet and     message, and spoof a truncated response to trigger an assertion failure, causing the server to exit.
    (CVE-2020-8622)

  - In BIND 9.10.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.10.5-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the     BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker that can reach a vulnerable system with a specially crafted     query packet can trigger a crash. To be vulnerable, the system must: * be running BIND that was built with
    --enable-native-pkcs11 * be signing one or more zones with an RSA key * be able to receive queries from     a possible attacker (CVE-2020-8623)

  - In BIND 9.9.12 -> 9.9.13, 9.10.7 -> 9.10.8, 9.11.3 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.1 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also     affects 9.9.12-S1 -> 9.9.13-S1, 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An     attacker who has been granted privileges to change a specific subset of the zone's content could abuse     these unintended additional privileges to update other contents of the zone. (CVE-2020-8624)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of bind installed on the remote host is prior to 9.11.4-26.P2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2020-1564 advisory.

    A flaw was found in bind. An assertion failure can occur when trying to verify a truncated response to a     TSIG-signed request. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-8622)

    A flaw was found in bind. An assertion failure can occur when a specially crafted query for a zone signed     with an RSA key. BIND must be compiled with --enable-native-pkcs11 for the system to be affected. The     highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-8623)

    A flaw was found in bind. Updates to  Update-policy rules of type subdomain are treated as if they     were of type zonesub which allows updates to all parts of the zone along with the intended subdomain.
    The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity. (CVE-2020-8624)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for bind fixes the following issues :

BIND was upgraded to version 9.16.6 :

Note :

  - bind is now more strict in regards to DNSSEC. If queries     are not working, check for DNSSEC issues. For instance,     if bind is used in a namserver forwarder chain, the     forwarding DNS servers must support DNSSEC.

Fixing security issues :

  - CVE-2020-8616: Further limit the number of queries that     can be triggered from a request. Root and TLD servers     are no longer exempt from max-recursion-queries. Fetches     for missing name server. (bsc#1171740) Address records     are limited to 4 for any domain.

  - CVE-2020-8617: Replaying a TSIG BADTIME response as a     request could trigger an assertion failure.
    (bsc#1171740)

  - CVE-2019-6477: Fixed an issue where TCP-pipelined     queries could bypass the tcp-clients limit     (bsc#1157051).

  - CVE-2018-5741: Fixed the documentation (bsc#1109160).

  - CVE-2020-8618: It was possible to trigger an INSIST when     determining whether a record would fit into a TCP     message buffer (bsc#1172958).

  - CVE-2020-8619: It was possible to trigger an INSIST in     lib/dns/rbtdb.c:new_reference() with a particular zone     content and query patterns (bsc#1172958).

  - CVE-2020-8624: 'update-policy' rules of type 'subdomain'     were incorrectly treated as 'zonesub' rules, which     allowed keys used in 'subdomain' rules to update names     outside of the specified subdomains. The problem was     fixed by making sure 'subdomain' rules are again     processed as described in the ARM (bsc#1175443).

  - CVE-2020-8623: When BIND 9 was compiled with native     PKCS#11 support, it was possible to trigger an assertion     failure in code determining the number of bits in the     PKCS#11 RSA public key with a specially crafted packet     (bsc#1175443).

  - CVE-2020-8621: named could crash in certain query     resolution scenarios where QNAME minimization and     forwarding were both enabled (bsc#1175443).

  - CVE-2020-8620: It was possible to trigger an assertion     failure by sending a specially crafted large TCP DNS     message (bsc#1175443).

  - CVE-2020-8622: It was possible to trigger an assertion     failure when verifying the response to a TSIG-signed     request (bsc#1175443).

Other issues fixed :

  - Add engine support to OpenSSL EdDSA implementation.

  - Add engine support to OpenSSL ECDSA implementation.

  - Update PKCS#11 EdDSA implementation to PKCS#11 v3.0.

  - Warn about AXFR streams with inconsistent message IDs.

  - Make ISC rwlock implementation the default again.

  - Fixed issues when using cookie-secrets for AES and SHA2     (bsc#1161168)

  - Installed the default files in /var/lib/named and     created chroot environment on systems using     transactional-updates (bsc#1100369, fate#325524)

  - Fixed an issue where bind was not working in FIPS mode     (bsc#906079).

  - Fixed dependency issues (bsc#1118367 and bsc#1118368).

  - GeoIP support is now discontinued, now GeoIP2 is     used(bsc#1156205).

  - Fixed an issue with FIPS (bsc#1128220).

  - The liblwres library is discontinued upstream and is no     longer included.

  - Added service dependency on NTP to make sure the clock     is accurate when bind is starts (bsc#1170667,     bsc#1170713).

  - Reject DS records at the zone apex when loading master     files. Log but otherwise ignore attempts to add DS     records at the zone apex via UPDATE.

  - The default value of 'max-stale-ttl' has been changed     from 1 week to 12 hours.

  - Zone timers are now exported via statistics channel.

  - The 'primary' and 'secondary' keywords, when used as     parameters for 'check-names', were not processed     correctly and were being ignored.

  - 'rndc dnstap -roll <value>' did not limit the number of     saved files to <value>.

  - Add 'rndc dnssec -status' command.

  - Addressed a couple of situations where named could     crash.

  - Changed /var/lib/named to owner root:named and perms     rwxrwxr-t so that named, being a/the only member of the     'named' group has full r/w access yet cannot change     directories owned by root in the case of a compromized     named. [bsc#1173307, bind-chrootenv.conf]

  - Added '/etc/bind.keys' to NAMED_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES in     /etc/sysconfig/named to suppress warning message re     missing file (bsc#1173983).

  - Removed '-r /dev/urandom' from all invocations of     rndc-confgen (init/named system/lwresd.init     system/named.init in vendor-files) as this option is     deprecated and causes rndc-confgen to fail.
    (bsc#1173311, bsc#1176674, bsc#1170713)

  - /usr/bin/genDDNSkey: Removing the use of the -r option     in the call of /usr/sbin/dnssec-keygen as BIND now uses     the random number functions provided by the crypto     library (i.e., OpenSSL or a PKCS#11 provider) as a     source of randomness rather than /dev/random. Therefore     the -r command line option no longer has any effect on     dnssec-keygen. Leaving the option in genDDNSkey as to     not break compatibility. Patch provided by Stefan     Eisenwiener. [bsc#1171313]

  - Put libns into a separate subpackage to avoid file     conflicts in the libisc subpackage due to different     sonums (bsc#1176092).

  - Require /sbin/start_daemon: both init scripts, the one     used in systemd context as well as legacy sysv, make use     of start_daemon.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2021:0025 advisory.

    Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2019-6465:
    Controls for zone transfers may not be properly applied to Dynamically Loadable Zones (DLZs) if the zones     are writable Versions affected: BIND 9.9.0 -> 9.10.8-P1, 9.11.0 -> 9.11.5-P2, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.3-P2, and     versions 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.5-S3 of BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition. Versions 9.13.0 -> 9.13.6 of the 9.13     development branch are also affected. Versions prior to BIND 9.9.0 have not been evaluated for     vulnerability to CVE-2019-6465.

    CVE-2019-6471:
    A race condition which may occur when discarding malformed packets can result in BIND exiting due to a     REQUIRE assertion failure in dispatch.c. Versions affected: BIND 9.11.0 -> 9.11.7, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.4-P1,     9.14.0 -> 9.14.2. Also all releases of the BIND 9.13 development branch and version 9.15.0 of the BIND     9.15 development branch and BIND Supported Preview Edition versions 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.7-S1.

    CVE-2020-8617:
    Using a specially-crafted message, an attacker may potentially cause a BIND server to reach an     inconsistent state if the attacker knows (or successfully guesses) the name of a TSIG key used by the     server. Since BIND, by default, configures a local session key even on servers whose configuration does     not otherwise make use of it, almost all current BIND servers are vulnerable. In releases of BIND dating     from March 2018 and after, an assertion check in tsig.c detects this inconsistent state and deliberately     exits. Prior to the introduction of the check the server would continue operating in an inconsistent     state, with potentially harmful results.

    CVE-2020-8622:
    In BIND 9.0.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the     BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker on the network path for a TSIG-signed request, or operating     the server receiving the TSIG-signed request, could send a truncated response to that request, triggering     an assertion failure, causing the server to exit. Alternately, an off-path attacker would have to     correctly guess when a TSIG-signed request was sent, along with other characteristics of the packet and     message, and spoof a truncated response to trigger an assertion failure, causing the server to exit.

    CVE-2020-8623:
    In BIND 9.10.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.10.5-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the     BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker that can reach a vulnerable system with a specially crafted     query packet can trigger a crash. To be vulnerable, the system must: * be running BIND that was built with
    --enable-native-pkcs11 * be signing one or more zones with an RSA key * be able to receive queries from     a possible attacker

    CVE-2020-8624:
    In BIND 9.9.12 -> 9.9.13, 9.10.7 -> 9.10.8, 9.11.3 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.1 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also     affects 9.9.12-S1 -> 9.9.13-S1, 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An     attacker who has been granted privileges to change a specific subset of the zone's content could abuse     these unintended additional privileges to update other contents of the zone.

    CVE-2020-8625:
    BIND servers are vulnerable if they are running an affected version and are configured to use GSS-TSIG     features. In a configuration which uses BIND's default settings the vulnerable code path is not exposed,     but a server can be rendered vulnerable by explicitly setting valid values for the tkey-gssapi-keytab or     tkey-gssapi-credentialconfiguration options. Although the default configuration is not vulnerable, GSS-     TSIG is frequently used in networks where BIND is integrated with Samba, as well as in mixed-server     environments that combine BIND servers with Active Directory domain controllers. The most likely outcome     of a successful exploitation of the vulnerability is a crash of the named process. However, remote code     execution, while unproven, is theoretically possible. Affects: BIND 9.5.0 -> 9.11.27, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.11,     and versions BIND 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.27-S1 and 9.16.8-S1 -> 9.16.11-S1 of BIND Supported Preview Edition.
    Also release versions 9.17.0 -> 9.17.1 of the BIND 9.17 development branch

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has bind packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - In BIND 9.0.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the     BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker on the network path for a TSIG-signed request, or operating     the server receiving the TSIG-signed request, could send a truncated response to that request, triggering     an assertion failure, causing the server to exit. Alternately, an off-path attacker would have to     correctly guess when a TSIG-signed request was sent, along with other characteristics of the packet and     message, and spoof a truncated response to trigger an assertion failure, causing the server to exit.
    (CVE-2020-8622)

  - In BIND 9.10.0 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also affects 9.10.5-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the     BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An attacker that can reach a vulnerable system with a specially crafted     query packet can trigger a crash. To be vulnerable, the system must: * be running BIND that was built with
    --enable-native-pkcs11 * be signing one or more zones with an RSA key * be able to receive queries from     a possible attacker (CVE-2020-8623)

  - In BIND 9.9.12 -> 9.9.13, 9.10.7 -> 9.10.8, 9.11.3 -> 9.11.21, 9.12.1 -> 9.16.5, 9.17.0 -> 9.17.3, also     affects 9.9.12-S1 -> 9.9.13-S1, 9.11.3-S1 -> 9.11.21-S1 of the BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, An     attacker who has been granted privileges to change a specific subset of the zone's content could abuse     these unintended additional privileges to update other contents of the zone. (CVE-2020-8624)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2020-735:07 advisory.

    * bind: truncated TSIG response can lead to an assertion failure (CVE-2020-8622)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of AOS installed on the remote host is prior to 5.19.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AOS-5.19.1 advisory.

  - In Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.46, several cryptographic primitives had missing length     checks. In cases where the application calling the library did not perform a sanity check on the inputs it     could result in a crash due to a buffer overflow. (CVE-2019-17006)

  - Heap buffer overflow in the TFTP protocol handler in cURL 7.19.4 to 7.65.3. (CVE-2019-5482)

  - In all versions of cpio before 2.13 does not properly validate input files when generating TAR archives.
    When cpio is used to create TAR archives from paths an attacker can write to, the resulting archive may     contain files with permissions the attacker did not have or in paths he did not have access to. Extracting     those archives from a high-privilege user without carefully reviewing them may lead to the compromise of     the system. (CVE-2019-14866)

  - If an HTTP/2 client connecting to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M7, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.37 or 8.5.0 to     8.5.57 exceeded the agreed maximum number of concurrent streams for a connection (in violation of the     HTTP/2 protocol), it was possible that a subsequent request made on that connection could contain HTTP     headers - including HTTP/2 pseudo headers - from a previous request rather than the intended headers. This     could lead to users seeing responses for unexpected resources. (CVE-2020-13943)

  - Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer). Supported     versions that are affected are 5.6.45 and prior, 5.7.27 and prior and 8.0.17 and prior. Easily exploitable     vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise     MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang     or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. (CVE-2019-2974)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
144496	AIX 7.2 TL 3 : bind (IJ29229)	Nessus	AIX Local Security Checks	12/21/2020	2/1/2024	medium
147396	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : bind Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2021-0064)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	3/10/2021	3/11/2021	medium
139770	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Bind vulnerabilities (USN-4468-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	8/24/2020	9/3/2025	medium
143050	CentOS 7 : bind (RHSA-2020:5011)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	11/18/2020	10/9/2024	medium
143579	Amazon Linux 2 : bind (ALAS-2020-1564)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	12/9/2020	12/11/2024	medium
141560	openSUSE Security Update : bind (openSUSE-2020-1699)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/20/2020	2/15/2024	medium
236577	Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0025: bind (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0025)	Nessus	Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks	5/14/2025	5/14/2025	high
154490	NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : bind Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2021-0153)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	10/27/2021	10/27/2021	medium
293974	MiracleLinux 4 : bind-9.8.2-0.68.8.0.1.rc1.AXS4 (AXSA:2020-735:07)	Nessus	Miracle Linux Local Security Checks	1/20/2026	1/20/2026	medium
164584	Nutanix AOS : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AOS-5.19.1)	Nessus	Misc.	9/1/2022	7/22/2025	critical

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