CVE-2018-5744

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

A failure to free memory can occur when processing messages having a specific combination of EDNS options. Versions affected are: BIND 9.10.7 -> 9.10.8-P1, 9.11.3 -> 9.11.5-P1, 9.12.0 -> 9.12.3-P1, and versions 9.10.7-S1 -> 9.11.5-S3 of BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition. Versions 9.13.0 -> 9.13.6 of the 9.13 development branch are also affected.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 9.13.7-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-1
bookworm Fixed 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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