CVE-2020-8616
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8616.html
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8616
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202005-13
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:9.16.3-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:9.16.3-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:9.16.3-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:9.16.3-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:9.16.3-1 |
| arch | fixed | 9.16.3-1 | |
| sles | affected | |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.