CVE-2025-40778
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.0
Description
Important: bind9.18 security update
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhel | 9 | fixed | |
| rocky | 8 | fixed | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:9.16.50-1~deb11u4 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:9.20.15-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:9.20.15-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:9.20.15-1~deb13u1 |
| sles | affected | | |
| rocky | 9 | fixed | |
| almalinux | 9 | fixed | bind9.18-chroot-9.18.29-4.el9_6.2.aarch64.rpm |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19950
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19951
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21110
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21111
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:19835
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:19793
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-40778
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40778.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:21110
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:21111
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19793
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2405827
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2405829
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-19793.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19835
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-19835.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2405830
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-19950.html
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-21110.html
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-21111.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.