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bind9 — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-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.

Products
bind9
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1:9.16.6-1
CVEs
CVE-2020-8622
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 13:34 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8622

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Aug 2020, 21:15 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8622

bind9

Fixed versions: 1:9.16.6-1

bind9

Fixed versions: 1:9.16.6-1

bind9

Fixed versions: 1:9.16.6-1

Complete source record
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  "id": "50f3cde3bb713d30e715b6a7777b08b0c3e381515df0e55f0c6538a73c2a0b07",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8622",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8622",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8622",
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          "value": "bind9",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
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            "value": "1:9.16.6-1",
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    "severity": "medium",
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          },
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          ],
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          ],
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            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/bind9?arch=source&distro=forky",
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          },
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            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8622.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-26T12:02:33.511134902Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2020-8622"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8622"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2020-8622",
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    ],
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 452550,
  "published_at": "2020-08-21T21:15:12.247+00:00"
}