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01 Record

CVE-2018-5742

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

MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: isc
CNA base score5.9 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

02 Description

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

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
1.57% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 74.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2019-10-30 13:43Z7 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-17 03:53Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2018-01-17
Assigning CNA
isc
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Medium (CVSS 5.9)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-617Reachable AssertionBase
  • CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
Data version
5.1
Document digest
b730f4960138cec3ddf066f1a0758c04eba76047c83e730dfc9c4a60daa4db33

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
RedHatBIND9RedHat BIND9 bind-9.9.4-65.el7 -> bind-9.9.4-72.el7—

06 References