CVE-2018-5742

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 High 7.5

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2018-5742

Assigner
security-officer@isc.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2019-10-30T14:15:11

Last Modified Date
2019-11-07T18:33:30

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-617	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/617.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
		AND
cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind::::::::	1	OR	9.9.4-65	9.9.4-72
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:::::::*	0	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
4.3

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.1

Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
7.5

Base Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-5742	Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5742
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5742

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 16:59:55				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 05:11:26	2019-10-30T14:15Z	2019-10-30T14:15:11	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-04 05:11:26		2019-11-07T18:33:30	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-04 05:11:26		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated