Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bind9.16-utils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BIND916UTILS-15059502
  • published22 Jan 2026
  • disclosed21 Jan 2026

Introduced: 21 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-13878  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1286  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bind9.16-utils package and not the bind9.16-utils package as distributed by RHEL.

Malformed BRID/HHIT records can cause named to terminate unexpectedly. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.40 through 9.18.43, 9.20.13 through 9.20.17, 9.21.12 through 9.21.16, 9.18.40-S1 through 9.18.43-S1, and 9.20.13-S1 through 9.20.17-S1.