Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-10-22T15:47:13.243Z

Last Modified :

2026-02-26T16:57:13.134Z

Source :

isc
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-40778 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Isc
  • Bind 9
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-40778.

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/22/1 cve-icon
https://gist.github.com/N3mes1s/f76b4a606308937b0806a5256bc1f918 cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-40778 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40778 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40778 cve-icon
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