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CVE-2026-123608

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

Description

Hickory DNS hickory-proto from 0.3.1 before 0.26.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in BinEncoder that allows remote attackers to exhaust CPU through quadratic-time name compression. Attackers can send malicious DNS messages with many records that add many candidate labels and trigger repeated linear scans during encoding, amplifying CPU exhaustion.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-407

References