| Name | CVE-2018-5742 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (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 Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| bind9 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u30 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u12 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u15 | fixed |
| buster | 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u7 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u10 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:9.16.44-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:9.16.48-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:9.18.19-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 1:9.18.24-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:9.19.21-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| bind9 | source | (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