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🛡️ ALSA-2025:19793 — bind9.16 (CVE-2025-40778 +1 more)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Important: bind9.16 security update

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named); a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.

Security Fix(es):

  • bind: Cache poisoning attacks with unsolicited RRs (CVE-2025-40778)
  • bind: Cache poisoning due to weak PRNG (CVE-2025-40780)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected software

ALSA-2025:19793 is recorded against 9 packages.

  • bind9.16 (fixed in 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4)
  • bind9.16-chroot (fixed in 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4)
  • bind9.16-devel (fixed in 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4)
  • bind9.16-dnssec-utils (fixed in 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4)
  • bind9.16-doc (fixed in 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4)
  • bind9.16-libs (fixed in 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4)
  • bind9.16-license (fixed in 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4)
  • bind9.16-utils (fixed in 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4)
  • python3-bind9.16 (fixed in 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 November 2025 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

access.redhat.com (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Report)
access.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
errata.almalinux.org (Advisory)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-11-05
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bind9.16 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4
bind9.16-chroot 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4
bind9.16-devel 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4
bind9.16-dnssec-utils 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4
bind9.16-doc 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4
bind9.16-libs 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4
bind9.16-license 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4
bind9.16-utils 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4
python3-bind9.16 32:9.16.23-0.22.el8_10.4

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