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Fedora 43 pdns-recursor 5.2 Vital Denial of Service Patch 2026-1f749a1c5e

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Calendar Grey April 13, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update to pdns-recursor 5.2 resolves multiple critical security issues in Fedora 43, enhancing overall system security and performance.
Update to latest 5.2 release, fixing multiple security issues

Summary

PowerDNS Recursor is a non authoritative/recursing DNS server. Use this

package if you need a dns cache for your network.

Update Information:

Update to latest 5.2 release, fixing multiple security issues

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue fedora important pdns-recursor

Change Log

* Fri Apr 3 2026 Sander Hoentjen - 5.2.8-1 - Update to latest 5.2 minor, 5.2.8 * Fri Jul 25 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 5.2.0-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2420814 - CVE-2025-59030 pdns-recursor: Insufficient validation of incoming notifies over TCP can lead to a denial of service [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2420814 [ 2 ] Bug #2423072 - CVE-2025-59029 pdns: PowerDNS: Assertion failure due to crafted DNS records [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423072 [ 3 ] Bug #2423073 - CVE-2025-59029 pdns-recursor: PowerDNS: Assertion failure due to crafted DNS records [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423073

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-9c582575e5' 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: pdns-recursor
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 5.2.8
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://www.powerdns.com/
Summary: Modern, advanced and high performance recursing/non authoritative name server

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue fedora important pdns-recursor

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