CVE-2026-24030

Unbounded memory allocation for DoQ and DoH3

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Mar 31, 2026
Updated
Mar 31, 2026
Reserved
Jan 20, 2026

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Description

An attacker might be able to trick DNSdist into allocating too much memory while processing DNS over QUIC or DNS over HTTP/3 payloads, resulting in a denial of service. In setups with a large quantity of memory available this usually results in an exception and the QUIC connection is properly closed, but in some cases the system might enter an out-of-memory state instead and terminate the process.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LOX

Weaknesses

  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Affected Products

ProductVersions
DNSdistPowerDNS
  • 1.9.0 to before 1.9.12Affected
  • 2.0.0 to before 2.0.3Affected

References

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