ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2025-40775) - Windows
🗓️ 21 May 2025 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 42 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-40775 | 21 May 202512:35 | – | alpinelinux | |
| [ASA-202505-14] bind: denial of service | 21 May 202500:00 | – | archlinux | |
| Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: bind (CVE-2025-40775) | 22 Jan 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| ISC BIND 9.20.0 < 9.20.9 / 9.21.0 < 9.21.8 Assertion Failure (cve-2025-40775) | 12 Feb 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| Photon OS 5.0: Bindutils PHSA-2025-5.0-0525 | 30 May 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Photon OS 5.0: Bindutils PHSA-2025-5.0-91-0525 | 5 Aug 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2025:01787-1) | 31 May 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Ubuntu 24.10 / 25.04 : Bind vulnerability (USN-7526-1) | 21 May 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| CVE-2025-40775 affecting package bind for versions less than 9.20.9-1 | 10 Jul 202515:09 | – | cbl_mariner | |
| Exploit for CVE-2025-40775 | 23 May 202500:41 | – | githubexploit |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:isc:bind";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.119008");
script_version("2025-05-22T05:40:21+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-05-22 05:40:21 +0000 (Thu, 22 May 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2025-05-21 14:34:38 +0000 (Wed, 21 May 2025)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2025-05-21 13:16:02 +0000 (Wed, 21 May 2025)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2025-40775");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2025-40775) - Windows");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_isc_bind_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("isc/bind/detected", "Host/runs_windows");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"When an incoming DNS protocol message includes a Transaction
Signature (TSIG), BIND always checks it. If the TSIG contains an invalid value in the algorithm
field, BIND immediately aborts with an assertion failure.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"By sending specific messages to the server, an attacker can cause
'named' to terminate unexpectedly.
- Authoritative servers are affected by this vulnerability.
- Resolvers are affected by this vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"ISC BIND version 9.20.0 through 9.20.8 and 9.21.0 through
9.21.7.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 9.20.9, 9.21.8 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2025-40775");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/21/1");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_full(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
proto = infos["proto"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.20.0", test_version2: "9.20.8")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.20.9", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.21.0", test_version2: "9.21.7")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.21.8", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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22 May 2025 00:00Current
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