CVE-2018-5742

NameCVE-2018-5742
DescriptionWhile 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

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
bind9source(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- bind9 <not-affected> (Introduced via RedHat specific backport of Negative Trust Anchor (NTA) feature)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/12/19/6
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655844
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15528
Introduced by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1452091

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