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Slackware 15.0: Important Security Update for CVE-2025-40777 Issues

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Mitigate vulnerabilities using the latest binding packages for Slackware 15.0, ensuring security concerns are tackled with essential updates now released.
New bind packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.18.38-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fix a possible assertion failure when using the 'stale-answer-client-timeout 0' option. For more information, see: https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-40777 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40777 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bind important slackware network attack

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/bind-9.18.38-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/bind-9.18.38-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/bind-9.20.11-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/bind-9.20.11-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 6840881bd06b47e49675de2eac1e9f7a bind-9.18.38-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 2aabd9caab0cf97636d1a9bb5339f601 bind-9.18.38-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 5f4727b6f552772a6766d59b87bdd812 n/bind-9.20.11-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: ccd6e6929daf1a56bdf66b5f632db6a6 n/bind-9.20.11-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue bind important slackware network attack

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bind-9.18.38-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Then, restart the name server: # /etc/rc.d/rc.bind restart