As per upstream advisory: The asterisk character ("*") is allowed in DNS zone files, where it is most commonly present as a wildcard at a terminal node of the Domain Name System graph. However, the RFCs do not require and BIND does not enforce that an asterisk character be present only at a terminal node. A problem can occur when an asterisk is present in an empty non-terminal location within the DNS graph. If such a node exists, after a series of queries, named can reach an inconsistent state that results in the failure of an assertion check in rbtdb.c, followed by the program exiting due to the assertion failure.
Acknowledgments: Name: ISC
Mitigation: As per upstream advisory: 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.
Created attachment 1697558 [details] bind-9.11 patch
External References: https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2020-8619
Created bind tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1848249]
Upstream bug: https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/issues/1718 Upstream commit: https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/commit/569cc155b8680d8ed12db1fabbe20947db24a0f9
Statement: Based on upstream affected versions, this flaw only affects the versions of bind shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2020:4500 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4500
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-8619