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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 30, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-5742

CVE-2018-5742

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.

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Affected products

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  • Isc/Bind
    cpe:2.3:a:isc:bind:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Range: >=9.9.4-65,<=9.9.4-72
  • Red Hat/bindllm-create
    Range: 9.9.4-65.el7 - 9.9.4-72.el7
  • RedHat/BIND9v5
    Range: RedHat BIND9 bind-9.9.4-65.el7 -> bind-9.9.4-72.el7

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