CVE-2018-5742

An oversight while backporting a feature leads to an assertion failure in buffer.c:420

State: Published
Severity: 5.9 Medium
Published: Oct 30, 2019
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Jan 17, 2018

Description

While backporting a feature for a newer branch of BIND9, RedHat introduced a path leading to an assertion failure in buffer.c:420. Affects RedHat versions bind-9.9.4-65.el7 -> bind-9.9.4-72.el7. No ISC releases are affected. Other packages from other distributions who made the same error may also be affected.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	5.9 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	isc

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
BIND9RedHat	RedHat BIND9 bind-9.9.4-65.el7 -> bind-9.9.4-72.el7Affected

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-5742

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