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CVE-2026-123604

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

Description

Hickory DNS hickory-resolver 0.26.0-beta.1 before 0.26.2 contains an unbounded retry loop in NameServerPool::try_send, which re-queues truncated (TC) responses without checking the answering transport or counting iterations. A malicious authoritative server returning TC=1 on every transport keeps the resolver spinning on a persistent TCP connection until the 5-second request deadline expires, causing resource exhaustion.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-835

References