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Medium RLSA-2025:8047 1 CVE

Moderate: unbound security update

Published Oct 3, 2025 · Updated Oct 3, 2025

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

Summary

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 10 unbound 0:1.20.0-10.el10_0

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2024-8508

    Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service

    NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.21.0 contains a vulnerability when handling replies with very large RRsets that it needs to perform name compression for. Malicious upstreams responses with very large RRsets can cause Unbound to spend a consid…

    NLnet Labs Unbound unbound unbound Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2316321