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CVE-2020-8618

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8618

Severity

4.9

Medium

CVSS V3

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Description

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.

References

Affected packages


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