<section xml:id="relnotes-9.14.12-security"><info><title>Security Fixes</title></info>
<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ To prevent exhaustion of server resources by a maliciously configured
+ domain, the number of recursive queries that can be triggered by a
+ request before aborting recursion has been further limited. Root and
+ top-level domain servers are no longer exempt from the
+ <command>max-recursion-queries</command> limit. Fetches for missing
+ name server address records are limited to 4 for any domain. This
+ issue was disclosed in CVE-2020-8616. [GL #1388]
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Replaying a TSIG BADTIME response as a request could