CVE-2026-18916 (GCVE-0-2026-18916)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-26 08:39
Modified
2026-08-26 14:22
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-191 - Integer Underflow
Summary
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.
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| NLnet Labs | NSD |
Version: 3.2.11 ≤ |
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