Bug 1578593 (CVE-2018-5737) - CVE-2018-5737 bind: Interaction between NSEC aggresive negative caching and the serve-stale feature can cause a denial of service
Summary: CVE-2018-5737 bind: Interaction between NSEC aggresive negative caching and t...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-5737
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1578904
Blocks: 1578592
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Reported: 2018-05-16 00:01 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2021-09-09 14:04 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: bind 9.12.1-P2
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A flaw was found in the "serve-stale" feature as implemented in bind. Problematic interaction between serve-stale feature and NSEC aggressive negative caching could cause denial of service.
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Last Closed: 2018-05-17 04:02:18 UTC
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-05-16 00:01:43 UTC
BIND versions 9.12.0 and 9.12.1 are vulnerable to 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 an assertion failure resulting in termination of the named process.

Deliberate exploitation of this condition could cause operational problems depending on the particular manifestation -- either degradation or denial of service.

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-05-17 04:01:02 UTC
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This security flaw only affects bind versions 9.12.0 and 9.12.1. Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not ship any of these bind versions, it is not affected.


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