RHSA-2025:0837 — Security Advisory

An update for unbound is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

Security Fix(es):

• unbound: unrestricted reconfiguration enabled to anyone that may lead to local privilege escalation (CVE-2024-1488)

• unbound: Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service (CVE-2024-8508)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.