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CVE-2026-123576 Details

Description

Hickory DNS 0.24.0 through 0.26.1 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability that allows remote attackers to consume server resources by sending incomplete DNS-over-QUIC request bodies. Attackers can open many connections and send only large length prefixes, causing pre-allocated buffers to persist without timeout and exhausting server memory.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns/security/advisories/GHSA-2f4m-fq7w-mrgx	[email protected]
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hickory-dns-0.24.0-through-0.26.1-memory-exhaustion-via-dns-over-quic-requests	[email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-770	Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling	[email protected]

Affected Products

No affected product data is available for this CVE.

Change History

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