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openSUSE: pdns-recursor Important Security Update CVE-2024-25590

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Calendar Grey July 27, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A critical patch for pdns-recursor has been released on openSUSE, fixing CVE-2024-25590 with essential updates.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for pdns-recursor fixes the following issues:

- update to 5.1.3:

* Implement rfc6303 special zones (mostly v6 reverse mappings)

* Distinguish OS imposed limits from app imposed limits, specifically on

chains.

- update to 5.1.2 (boo#1231292 CVE-2024-25590)

https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/5.1.html#change-5.1.2

- update to 5.1.1

https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/5.1.html#change-5.1.1

https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/5.0.html#change-5.0.8

- update to 5.0.5:

* Do not count RRSIGs using unsupported algorithms toward RRSIGs limit

* Correctly count NSEC3s considered when chasing the closest encloser.

* Let NetmaskGroup parse dont-throttle-netmasks, allowing negations.

* Fix types of two YAML settings (incoming.edns_padding_from,

incoming.proxy_protocol_from) that should be sequences of subnets

* Fix trace=fail regression and add regression test for it

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP7:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2025-250=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le x86_64):

pdns-recursor-5.1.3-bp157.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-25590.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1231292

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2025:0250-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP7 .

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