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bind9 — security advisory
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.
- Products
- bind9
- Affected versions
- 1:9.18.12-1, 1:9.18.13-1, 1:9.18.16-1, 1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1, 1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1~bpo11+1, 1:9.18.19-1~deb12u1, 1:9.18.19-1~deb12u1~bpo11+1, 1:9.18.24-1, 1:9.18.24-1~bpo11+1, 1:9.18.28-1~deb12u1, 1:9.18.28-1~deb12u2, 1:9.18.33-1~deb12u2, 1:9.20.11-4, 1:9.20.15-1~deb13u1, 1:9.20.15-1~deb13u1~bpo12+1
- Fixed versions
- 1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1, 1:9.20.15-1, 1:9.20.15-1~deb13u1
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-40778
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 11:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40778
bind9
Fixed versions: 1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1
bind9
Fixed versions: 1:9.20.15-1~deb13u1
bind9
Fixed versions: 1:9.20.15-1
Complete source record
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"summary": "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.",
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"modified": "2026-10-09T09:47:25.924014482Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 111492,
"published_at": "2025-10-22T16:15:42.52+00:00"
}