vulnerability

IBM AIX: bind_advisory17 (CVE-2020-8616): Denial of service vulnerability in BIND that affects AIX

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 19, 2020
Added
Aug 24, 2020
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

A malicious actor who intentionally exploits this lack of effective limitation on the number of fetches performed when processing referrals can, through the use of specially crafted referrals, cause a recursing server to issue a very large number of fetches in an attempt to process the referral. This has at least two potential effects: The performance of the recursing server can potentially be degraded by the additional work required to perform these fetches, and The attacker can exploit this behavior to use the recursing server as a reflector in a reflection attack with a high amplification factor.

Solution

ibm-aix-bind_advisory17
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