CVE-2018-5742

An oversight while backporting a feature leads to an assertion failure in buffer.c:420

Medium · published October 30, 2019

CVSS v3.0
5.9
EPSS
2%
Percentile
75.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01575 · 75.2th percentile
Published
2019-10-30T13:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 OCT 13:43Z
    An oversight while backporting a feature leads to an assertion failure in buffer.c:420
    cvelistv5