Bind vulnerabilities
Summary
Vitaly Simonovich discovered that Bind could exhaust memory during GSS-API TKEY negotiation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2026-3039) Shuhan Zhang discovered that Bind incorrectly handled self-pointed glue records. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to use Bind in denial of service amplification attacks against other systems. (CVE-2026-3592) Naresh Kandula Parmar discovered that Bind incorrectly handled memory in the DNS-over-HTTPS implementation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-3593) It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled DNS messages whose class was not IN. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-5946) Naoki Wakamatsu discovered that Bind incorrectly handled SIG(0) validation during a query flood. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-5947) Billy Baraja discovered that Bind had an unbounded resend loop in the resolver. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind t Affected Ubuntu releases: 26.04, 25.10, 24.04, 22.04. CVEs: CVE-2026-5950, CVE-2026-5947, CVE-2026-3593, CVE-2026-5946, CVE-2026-3592, CVE-2026-3039.
- Ubuntu 26.04
- Ubuntu 25.10
- Ubuntu 24.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
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Mitigation checklist
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
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