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CVE-2026-123570

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-11-08 Modified: 2026-11-08

Description

The DNS wire-format message parser in hickory-proto (Hickory DNS) 0.18 before 0.26.2 preallocates record vectors sized by the untrusted ANCOUNT, NSCOUNT, and ARCOUNT header fields before reading record data. Remote attackers can send a UDP datagram, or a spoofed response to a client/resolver, with these counts set to 65535, forcing about 18MB of allocation per message.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-400

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