SB2018081026 - Fedora 27 update for bind

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SB2018081026 - Fedora 27 update for bind

Published: August 10, 2018 Updated: April 24, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2018081026
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5738)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to improper access controls. When configured with "recursion yes;" and match list values are not provided for "allow-query-cache" or "allow-query", the "allow-recursion" setting may permit all hosts to perform recursion. A remote attacker can bypass intended recursion access controls, make a recursive query to a BIND nameserver in certain cases and examine the results of queries answered from the cache to determine which queries a server has previously responded to.


2) Assertion failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5740)

The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to INSIST assertion failure in name.c when processing recursive queries. A remote attacker can trigger denial of service conditions if the affected server is configured with enabled "deny-answer-aliases" feature.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References