UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40778

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40778

    Published: 22 Oct 2025Last Modified: 26 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2025-40778

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40778, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40778, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7836-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7836-2

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bind9

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/bind9?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1:9.9.3.dfsg.P2-4ubuntu1
    1:9.9.3.dfsg.P2-4ubuntu2
    1:9.9.3.dfsg.P2-4ubuntu3
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-2
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.2
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.3
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.4
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.5
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.6
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.7
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.8
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.10
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.11
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.12
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.13
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.14
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.15
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.16
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.17
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.18
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm1
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm2
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm3
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm4
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm5
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm6
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm7
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm9
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm10
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm11
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm12
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm13
    1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm14

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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