CVE-2018-5736

bind: Multiple transfers of a zone in quick succession can cause an assertion failure in rbtdb.c

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · May 18, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the way zone databases were handled by bind. An attacker with permissions to initiate a zone transfer could cause bind to crash.

Statement

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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption