CVE-2018-5734

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2018-02-28
CWE:
CWE-617
Bugzilla:
1550602: CVE-2018-5734 bind: A malformed request can trigger an assertion failure in badcache.c

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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Find out more about CVE-2018-5734 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of bind as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 7.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 bind Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 bind Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bind97 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 bind Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank ISC for reporting this issue.

External References

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