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Medium · 4.6 CVE-2026-32792 EUVD-2026-31077GHSA-8v34-57vr-p4cp

Packet of death with DNSCrypt

Published May 20, 2026 · Updated May 20, 2026 · Assigned by NLnet Labs

Description

NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.2 up to and including version 1.25.0 has a denial of service vulnerability when compiled with DNSCrypt support ('--enable-dnscrypt'). A bad DNSCrypt query could underflow Unbound's DNSCrypt packet reading procedure that may lead to heap overflow. A malicious actor can exploit the vulnerability with a single bad DNSCrypt query that its decrypted plaintext consists entirely of '0x00' bytes and does not contain the expected '0x80' marker. Unbound would then start reading more bytes than necessary until it finds a non-'0x00' byte. Based on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout, it could lead to heap overflow while reading followed by a crash. Likelihood of a crash is low, since it relies heavily on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout. If the heap overflow does not happen, Unbound's later packet checks will deny the packet. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to bound reading in the given buffer space.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.2 – < 1.25.1 1.25.1

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 unbound 1.25.1-1 —
Debian 13 unbound 1.22.0-2+deb13u3 —
Debian 12 unbound No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS unbound 1.24.2-1ubuntu2.1 —
Ubuntu 25.10 unbound 1.22.0-2ubuntu2.3 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS unbound 1.19.2-1ubuntu3.8 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS unbound 1.13.1-1ubuntu5.15 —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS unbound No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS unbound No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS unbound No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS unbound No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 unbound +7 1.25.1-1.hum1 RHSA-2026:20357
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
SLES 15 SP4 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
Show 8 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 unbound 1.24.1-160000.2.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22160-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
SLES 16.0 unbound 1.24.1-160000.2.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22160-1
SLE Micro 6.2 unbound 1.24.1-160000.2.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22213-1
SLE Micro 5.5 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 unbound 1.20.0-150100.10.25.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2369-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed unbound 1.25.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10903-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 unbound 1.24.1-160000.2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21083-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 unbound 1.25.1-1 —

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