A week in security (July 20 – July 26)

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SUSE CVE-2026-42955

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.16.2 up to and including 1.25.1, a similar vulnerability as with CVE-2026-40622 in the 'ghost domain names' family of attacks was found in Unbound that could extend the ghost domain window by up to one cached TTL configured value for A/AAAA glue records. Similar to other...

SUSE CVE-2026-50243

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.2 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound is configured with the 'respip' module in front of the validator together with a 'response-ip' redirect rule or an RPZ file with an RPZ-IP trigger, the rewriting handler does not check the security status of the upstream answer...

SUSE CVE-2026-50248

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.7.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when an auth/rpz zone has a configured primary hostname that resolves to BOGUS A/AAAA, it is still considered as a possible XFR endpoint. A malicious actor that can spoof the hostname's A/AAAA record no valid RRSIG required becomes the zone'...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-50243

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.2 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound is configured with the 'respip' module in front of the validator together with a...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-12617

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The issue is unexpected program termination based on ordering and/or specific content in responses to queries for CNAME or DNAME, and A records. Specifically, i...

CVE-2026-12617

The issue is unexpected program termination based on ordering and/or specific content in responses to queries for CNAME or DNAME, and A records. Specifically, if a client queries for a DNAME and A record below the DNAME to the resolver, and the authoritative server responds positively to the A...

ALPINE-CVE-2026-12617

The issue is unexpected program termination based on ordering and/or specific content in responses to queries for CNAME or DNAME, and A records. Specifically, if a client queries for a DNAME and A record below the DNAME to the resolver, and the authoritative server responds positively to the A...

CVE-2026-50243

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.2 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound is configured with the 'respip' module in front of the validator together with a 'response-ip' redirect rule or an RPZ file with an RPZ-IP trigger, the rewriting handler does not check the security status of the upstream answer...

CVE-2026-50248

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.7.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when an auth/rpz zone has a configured primary hostname that resolves to BOGUS A/AAAA, it is still considered as a possible XFR endpoint. A malicious actor that can spoof the hostname's A/AAAA record no valid RRSIG required becomes the zone'...

CVE-2026-12617

CVE-2026-12617 affects ISC BIND 9: vulnerable in 9.18.0–9.18.50 and 9.20.0–9.20.24 (including 9.18.11-S1–9.18.50-S1 and 9.20.9-S1–9.20.24-S1). The issue causes named to quit unexpectedly when handling responses for CNAME/DNAME and A records under certain query/order scenarios, potentially leading...

EUVD-2026-47711

The issue is unexpected program termination based on ordering and/or specific content in responses to queries for CNAME or DNAME, and A records. Specifically, if a client queries for a DNAME and A record below the DNAME to the resolver, and the authoritative server responds positively to the A...

CVE-2026-50248

CVE-2026-50248 affects NLnet Labs Unbound 1.7.0 through 1.25.1. When an auth/rpz zone has a configured primary hostname that resolves to a bogus A/AAAA, it can still be treated as a possible XFR endpoint. A malicious actor who can spoof the hostname’s A/AAAA (no valid RRSIG required) may become t...

CVE-2026-50243

CVE-2026-50243 affects NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.2 up to 1.25.1. When the respip module is placed in front of the validator and used with a response-ip redirect or RPZ-IP trigger, the rewriting handler does not check the upstream answer’s security status and can rewrite a BOGUS A/AAAA reply to an op...

CVE-2026-50243

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.2 up to and including 1.25.1, when Unbound is configured with the 'respip' module in front of the validator together with a 'response-ip' redirect rule or an RPZ file with an RPZ-IP trigger, the rewriting handler does not check the security status of the upstream answer...

CVE-2026-42955 Extra fix for CVE-2026-40622 to also clamp the TTL of A/AAAA records disallowing a one-time 'ghost domain' delegation renewal via glue records

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.16.2 up to and including 1.25.1, a similar vulnerability as with CVE-2026-40622 in the 'ghost domain names' family of attacks was found in Unbound that could extend the ghost domain window by up to one cached TTL configured value for A/AAAA glue records. Similar to other...

SUSE CVE-2026-64166

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: armffa: Check for NULL FF-A ID table while driver registration The bus match callback assumes that every FF-A driver provides an idtable and dereferences it unconditionally. Enforce that contract at registration time so...

MAL-2026-10865 Malicious code in kimitalk (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 94983bf77f2b110f03fdd52385dfc4d215ad082666b1ac482c805062605c8d35 The package presents itself as a 'Kimi' chat runtime but bundles a 32MB ELF binary at resources/kimichat that is ForgeMiner 1.4.1, a CUDA GPU...

CVE-2026-64166

CVE-2026-64166: In the Linux kernel, the FF-A ARM driver registration path now validates that the id_table pointer is non-NULL before use. The bus match callback previously dereferenced an id_table unconditionally, which could crash buggy drivers during bus matching. The fix enforces the contract...

CVE-2026-48487 Zeroconf: Unvalidated rdlength in record payload readers allows LAN-local cache corruption via crafted mDNS packet

Zeroconf is a pure Python implementation of multicast DNS service discovery. Prior to 0.149.16, readcharacterstring and readstring in src/zeroconf/protocol/incoming.py advanced self.offset by attacker-declared RDLENGTH without checking it against self.datalen, allowing unauthenticated hosts on th...