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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 30, 2019· Updated Sep 17, 2024

An oversight while backporting a feature leads to an assertion failure in buffer.c:420

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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  • Isc/Bindllm-fuzzy
    Range: 9.9.4-65.el7 to 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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