5.9 MEDIUM
- CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
- Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
- Confidentiality (C): None (N)
- Integrity (I): None (N)
- Availability (A): High (H)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Confidentiality (MC): None (N)
- Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
- Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
- Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
Activity log
- Created suggestion
Memory corruption could lead to crash and denial of service
In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 up to and including 1.25.1, a fix that makes the 'respip' and 'dns64' modules work together, creates a shallow copy of the view name in effect that could lead to memory corruption if the owner of the original view name is jostled out when Unbound is under pressure. Unbound needs to be configured with one of 'respip'/'rpz' modules, together with a module that can attach subqueries (respip CNAME redirection, dns64, subnetcache) and a configured 'access-control-view' while Unbound is under pressure so that joslte logic kicks in and starts dropping slow queries. The subquery is getting a shallow copy of the view name and if the super query which owns the view name is jostled out, memory corruption can occur. Likelihood of a crash is low, since it relies heavily on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout. Debug memory builds (e.g., ASAN) that catch the free terminate the server.
References
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https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2026-52863.txt vendor-advisory
Affected products
- <1.25.2
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.unbound
Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
pkgs.unbound-full
Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
pkgs.unbound-with-systemd
Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
pkgs.luaPackages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.lua51Packages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.lua52Packages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.lua53Packages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.lua54Packages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.lua55Packages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.luajitPackages.luaunbound
A binding to libunbound
pkgs.prometheus-unbound-exporter
Prometheus exporter for Unbound DNS resolver
pkgs.python313Packages.pyunbound
Python library for Unbound, the validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
pkgs.python314Packages.pyunbound
Python library for Unbound, the validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver
pkgs.haskellPackages.unbound-generics
Support for programming with names and binders using GHC Generics
pkgs.haskellPackages.unbounded-delays
Unbounded thread delays and timeouts
pkgs.haskellPackages.unbound-kind-generics
Support for programming with names and binders using kind-generics
Package maintainers
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@mweinelt Martin Weinelt <hexa@darmstadt.ccc.de>
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@Scrumplex Sefa Eyeoglu <contact@scrumplex.net>