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Fedora 42 : bind9-next (2025-d9f9394ecd)

high Nessus Plugin ID 275502

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-d9f9394ecd advisory.

 # Update to 9.21.14 (rhbz#2394406)

 ## Security Fixes:

 - DNSSEC validation fails if matching but invalid DNSKEY is found. (CVE-2025-8677)
 - Address various spoofing attacks. (CVE-2025-40778)
 - Cache-poisoning due to weak pseudo-random number generator. (CVE-2025-40780)

 ## New Features:

 - Add dnssec-policy keys configuration check to named-checkconf.
 - Add support for synthetic records.
 - Support for zone-specific plugins.
 - Support for additional tokens in the zone file name template.

 ## Removed Features:

 - Remove randomized RRset ordering.

 and bug fixes

 https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.21.14/doc/arm/html/notes.html#notes-for-bind-9-21-14




Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected 32:bind9-next package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-d9f9394ecd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 275502

File Name: fedora_2025-d9f9394ecd.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2025

Updated: 11/16/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-40780

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind9-next, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40778, CVE-2025-40780, CVE-2025-8677