Security Advisory

CVE-2020-0836

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-09-11 17:08:23
Last updated 2024-08-04 06:18:03
Assigner microsoft
State PUBLISHED

Description

<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in Windows DNS when it fails to properly handle queries. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the DNS service to become nonresponsive.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could send malicious DNS queries to a target, resulting in a denial of service.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows DNS processes queries.</p>