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High ALAS2-2025-3054 1 CVE

Important: bind security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Nov 5, 2025 · Updated Nov 5, 2025

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-8677: Querying for records within a specially crafted zone containing certain malformed DNSKEY records can lead to CPU exhaustion. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.0 through 9.18.39, 9.20.0 through 9.20.13, 9.21.0 through 9.21.12, 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.39-S1, and 9.20.9-S1 through 9.20.13-S1.

Fixed packages 17

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 bind 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-chroot 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-debuginfo 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-devel 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-export-devel 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-export-libs 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-libs 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-libs-lite 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-license 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-lite-devel 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-devel 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-libs 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-pkcs11-utils 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-sdb 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-sdb-chroot 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12
Amazon Linux · 2 bind-utils 32:9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.12

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2025-8677 EPSS 11%

    Resource exhaustion via malformed DNSKEY handling

    Querying for records within a specially crafted zone containing certain malformed DNSKEY records can lead to CPU exhaustion. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.0 through 9.18.39, 9.20.0 through 9.20.13, 9.21.0 through 9.21.12, 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.39-…

    ISC BIND 9 bind9 bind9 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-8677.html