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Slackware 15.0: bind Critical DNS Spoofing Fix 2025-295-01

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Calendar Grey October 22, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated Slackware bind packages address serious DNS security vulnerabilities, ensuring enhanced protection and reliability for your systems
New bind packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bind-9.18.41-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: DNSSEC validation fails if matching but invalid DNSKEY is found. Address various spoofing attacks. Cache-poisoning due to weak pseudo-random number generator. For more information, see: https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-40778 https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-40780 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8677 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40778 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40780 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical bind slackware DNS spoofing

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-9.18.41-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-9.18.41-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/bind-9.20.15-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/bind-9.20.15-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: ec679a2c990fdc078ca89c8f09dcc2e9 bind-9.18.41-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 1210a9f1c0a13c3d0db4a930cfc85e27 bind-9.18.41-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: e055607d50eb07a3d39166cd2df19b1e n/bind-9.20.15-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 0a05a4a85e285520d879fa02e6b9dee0 n/bind-9.20.15-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical bind slackware DNS spoofing

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg bind-9.18.41-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Then, restart the name server: # /etc/rc.d/rc.bind restart