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CVE-2026-123584

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.9 Published: 2026-11-08 Modified: 2026-11-08

Description

The hickory-net crate in Hickory DNS 0.26.0 before 0.26.2 stops listening and returns an error when a client UDP connection receives a datagram that cannot be parsed as a DNS message. Remote attackers who guess the query's source port, without knowing the transaction ID, can spoof malformed responses to abort client queries, causing denial of service.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-696

References