CVE-2018-5740

NameCVE-2018-5740
Description"deny-answer-aliases" is a little-used feature intended to help recursive server operators protect end users against DNS rebinding attacks, a potential method of circumventing the security model used by client browsers. However, a defect in this feature makes it easy, when the feature is in use, to experience an assertion failure in name.c. Affects BIND 9.7.0->9.8.8, 9.9.0->9.9.13, 9.10.0->9.10.8, 9.11.0->9.11.4, 9.12.0->9.12.2, 9.13.0->9.13.2.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1485-1, DLA-2807-1, ELA-31-1
Debian Bugs905743

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
bind9 (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u31fixed
stretch (security)1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u12fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u16fixed
buster, buster (lts)1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u13fixed
buster (security)1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u11fixed
bullseye1:9.16.50-1~deb11u2fixed
bullseye (security)1:9.16.50-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm1:9.18.28-1~deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie1:9.20.2-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
bind9sourcewheezy1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u21ELA-31-1
bind9sourcejessie1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u16DLA-1485-1
bind9sourcestretch1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u10DLA-2807-1
bind9source(unstable)1:9.11.4.P1+dfsg-1905743

Notes

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01639/74/CVE-2018-5740
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/merge_requests/607/commits

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