What is CVE-2018-5735?

CVE-2018-5735 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Bind9, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-10-30.

How severe is CVE-2018-5735?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Debian Bind9

CVE-2018-5735

The Debian backport of the fix for CVE-2017-3137 leads to assertion failure in validator.c:1858; Affects Debian versions 9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u15; 9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u18; 9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u5; 9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1 No ISC releases are affected. Other packages from other distributions who did similar backports for the fix for 2017-3137 may also be affected.

EPSS: 0.014 (69.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Debian Bind9 — versions Debian BIND9 9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u15; 9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u18; 9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u5; 9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-617 — Reachable Assertion

References

security-officer@isc.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-5735?: CVE-2018-5735 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Bind9, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-10-30.
How severe is CVE-2018-5735?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.