CVE-2018-5737

bind: Interaction between NSEC aggresive negative caching and the serve-stale feature can cause a denial of service

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.0

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Published · May 18, 2018

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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.

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 · 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption