RHSA-2025:1670 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for bind9.18 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS (Domain Name System) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named), which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating properly.

Security Fix(es):

• bind: bind9: Many records in the additional section cause CPU exhaustion (CVE-2024-11187)
• bind: bind9: DNS-over-HTTPS implementation suffers from multiple issues under heavy query load (CVE-2024-12705)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 9 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2342879 - CVE-2024-11187 bind: bind9: Many records in the additional section cause CPU exhaustion
• BZ - 2342880 - CVE-2024-12705 bind: bind9: DNS-over-HTTPS implementation suffers from multiple issues under heavy query load

CVEs

• CVE-2024-11187
• CVE-2024-12705

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important