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Permalink CVE-2026-18916
6.9 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
created 3 days, 13 hours ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion 3 days, 13 hours ago
Remote TCP DoS by throttling the TCP receive window

Any remote client can crash a NSD serve child, by throttling the TCP receive window after a TCP query. By continuously crashing the serve childs, the remote client can denial all TCP service to this NSD instance.

Affected products

NSD
  • <4.15.1

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.nsd

Authoritative only, high performance, simple and open source name server

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C99 program that accesses passive DNS database systems

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pkgs.dnsdiag

DNS Measurement, Troubleshooting and Security Auditing Toolset

pkgs.adidnsdump

Active Directory Integrated DNS dumping by any authenticated user

pkgs.perlPackages.nsdiff

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    • nixpkgs-unstable 1.85
    • nixos-unstable-small 1.85
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