CVE-2026-41292 (GCVE-0-2026-41292)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-20 09:19
Modified
2026-05-20 12:11
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to a degradation of service attack related to parsing long lists of incoming EDNS options. An adversary sending queries with too many EDNS options can hold Unbound threads hostage while they are parsing and creating internal data structures for the options. Coordinated attacks can result in degradation and/or denial of service. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to limit acceptable incoming EDNS options (100).
References
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Impacted products
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| NLnet Labs | Unbound |
Version: 0 ≤ |
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