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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-5742: Security patch for bind (ALAS-2019-1170)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-5742: Security patch for bind (ALAS-2019-1170)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/30/2019
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-chroot
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-libs-lite
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-license
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-lite-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-pkcs11
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-pkcs11-utils
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-sdb
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-sdb-chroot
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bind-utils

References

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