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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-32934 EUVD-2026-27440GHSA-2wpx-qpw2-g5h5GO-2026-4969

CoreDNS DNS-over-QUIC unbounded goroutine growth leads to denial of service

Published May 5, 2026 · Updated May 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins. In versions prior to 1.14.3, the DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) server can be driven into unbounded goroutine and memory growth by a remote client that opens many QUIC streams and sends only 1 byte per stream. When the worker pool is full, CoreDNS still spawns a goroutine per accepted stream to wait for a worker token. Additionally, active workers block indefinitely in io.ReadFull() with no per-stream read deadline, allowing an attacker to pin all workers by sending a single byte so the read blocks waiting for the second byte of the DoQ length prefix. This enables an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause memory exhaustion and OOM-kill. This issue has been fixed in version 1.14.3. No known workarounds exist.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
coredns coredns < 1.14.3 —

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
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 coredns 1.11.4-17 —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling coredns-1.13 +1 No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling juicefs-1.3 1.3.1-r14 —
Wolfi rolling k8s_gateway 1.8.0-r1 —
Wolfi rolling kubernetes-dns-node-cache 1.26.8-r3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/coredns/coredns < 1.14.3 1.14.3 GHSA-2wpx-qpw2-g5h5

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