CVE-2025-40778 Affecting bind-export-libs-debuginfo package, versions <32:9.11.36-16.el8_10.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.67% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-BINDEXPORTLIBSDEBUGINFO-13861284
  • published9 Nov 2025
  • disclosed22 Oct 2025

Introduced: 22 Oct 2025

CVE-2025-40778  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 bind-export-libs-debuginfo to version 32:9.11.36-16.el8_10.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2025:19835.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bind-export-libs-debuginfo package and not the bind-export-libs-debuginfo package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Under certain circumstances, BIND is too lenient when accepting records from answers, allowing an attacker to inject forged data into the cache. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.16.50, 9.18.0 through 9.18.39, 9.20.0 through 9.20.13, 9.21.0 through 9.21.12, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.16.50-S1, 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.39-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.13-S1.

CVSS Base Scores

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