RHSA-2025:8047 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for unbound is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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

The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

Security Fix(es):

• unbound: Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service (CVE-2024-8508)

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 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 10 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 10 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 10 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 10 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 10 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 10.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - 4 years of support 10.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - 4 years of updates 10.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2316321 - CVE-2024-8508 unbound: Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service

CVEs

• CVE-2024-8508

References

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