vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2017-3138)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 16, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A security issue has been found in the bind named daemon, that will exit with a "require" assertion failure if it receives a null command string on its control channel. The control channel is not enabled by default and is usually restricted to a few remote hosts via an ACL and/or a transaction key.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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