Fedora 42: kea Critical Update for CVE-2025-40779 Advisory 2025-92b4ae7199
fedora
September 7, 2025
New version 3.0.1 (rhbz#2391289) Fixes CVE-2025-40779 (rhbz#2391373)
Summary
DHCP implementation from Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. that features fully
functional DHCPv4, DHCPv6 and Dynamic DNS servers.
Both DHCP servers fully support server discovery, address assignment, renewal,
rebinding and release. The DHCPv6 server supports prefix delegation. Both
servers support DNS Update mechanism, using stand-alone DDNS daemon.
Update Information:
New version 3.0.1 (rhbz#2391289) Fixes CVE-2025-40779 (rhbz#2391373)
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Fri Aug 29 2025 Martin Osvald
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2391373 - CVE-2025-40779 kea: Kea crash upon interaction between specific client options and subnet selection
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391373
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-92b4ae7199' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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Name: kea
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 3.0.1
Release: 1.fc42
URL: http://kea.isc.org
Summary: DHCPv4, DHCPv6 and DDNS server from ISC
Topics Covered
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