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named exits with a REQUIRE assertion failure if it receives a null command string on its control channel

Published Jan 16, 2019

Description

named contains a feature which allows operators to issue commands to a running server by communicating with the server process over a control channel, using a utility program such as rndc. A regression introduced in a recent feature change has created a situation under which some versions of named can be caused to exit with a REQUIRE assertion failure if they are sent a null command string. Affects BIND 9.9.9->9.9.9-P7, 9.9.10b1->9.9.10rc2, 9.10.4->9.10.4-P7, 9.10.5b1->9.10.5rc2, 9.11.0->9.11.0-P4, 9.11.1b1->9.11.1rc2, 9.9.9-S1->9.9.9-S9.

Affected products

Remediation

Vendor solution

Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of BIND. These can all be downloaded from http://www.isc.org/downloads.

BIND 9 version 9.9.9-P8 BIND 9 version 9.10.4-P8 BIND 9 version 9.11.0-P5

BIND Supported Preview Edition is a special feature preview branch of BIND provided to eligible ISC support customers.

BIND 9 version 9.9.9-S10

New maintenance releases of BIND are also scheduled which contain the fix for this vulnerability. In addition to the security releases listed above, fixes for this vulnerability are also included in these release candidate versions:

BIND 9 version 9.9.10rc3 BIND 9 version 9.10.5rc3 BIND 9 version 9.11.1rc3

Red Hat statement

This issue does not affect bind as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 as it does not contain the affected code.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-617

References (11)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner isc
Published Jan 16, 2019
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Dec 2, 2016
Link CVE-2017-3138
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2017-3138
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Apr 12, 2017
Links CVE-2017-3138 - Bugzilla