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CVE-2018-5737

medium · 5.9

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.

5.9
CVSS
10.4%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2019-01-16
Published

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-617

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
iscbind9.12.0
iscbind9.12.1
netappcloud_backupall versions
netappdata_ontap_edgeall versions

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