While handling a particular type of malformed packet BIND erroneously selects a SERVFAIL rcode instead of a FORMERR rcode. If the receiving view has the SERVFAIL cache feature enabled, this can trigger an assertion failure in badcache.c when the request doesn't contain all of the expected information. Affects BIND 9.10.5-S1 to 9.10.5-S4, 9.10.6-S1, 9.10.6-S2.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-5734 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue did not affect the versions of bind as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 as they did not include the vulnerable code.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | bind | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | bind | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | bind97 | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | bind | Not affected |
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