suse · CVE-2018-5740

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Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 14:09:39 UTC Updated: 2026-04-17 15:35:35 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2018-5740 severity important: SUSE including 182 source package names (bind, bind-9.11.2-12.11.2, …), 480 product×package rows across 75 product lines (Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-BYOS, Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-Basic-On-Demand, … (75 product lines)): Fixed 476, Known Not Affected 4.

Description:

"deny-answer-aliases" is a little-used feature intended to help recursive server operators protect end users against DNS rebinding attacks, a potential method of circumventing the security model used by client browsers. However, a defect in this feature makes it easy, when the feature is in use, to experience an assertion failure in name.c. Affects BIND 9.7.0->9.8.8, 9.9.0->9.9.13, 9.10.0->9.10.8, 9.11.0->9.11.4, 9.12.0->9.12.2, 9.13.0->9.13.2.

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