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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5737: Reachable Assertion

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5737: Reachable Assertion

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/16/2019
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/16/2019
Modified
10/10/2024

Description

A problem with the implementation of the new serve-stale feature in BIND 9.12 can lead to an assertion failure in rbtdb.c, even when stale-answer-enable is off. Additionally, problematic interaction between the serve-stale feature and NSEC aggressive negative caching can in some cases cause undesirable behavior from named, such as a recursion loop or excessive logging. Deliberate exploitation of this condition could cause operational problems depending on the particular manifestation -- either degradation or denial of service. Affects BIND 9.12.0 and 9.12.1.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-bind

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