The DNS wire-format message parser in hickory-proto (Hickory DNS) 0.18 before 0.26.2 preallocates record vectors sized by the untrusted ANCOUNT, NSCOUNT, and ARCOUNT header fields before reading record data. Remote attackers can send a UDP datagram, or a spoofed response to a client/resolver, with these counts set to 65535, forcing about 18MB of allocation per message.
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| Description | The DNS wire-format message parser in hickory-proto (Hickory DNS) 0.18 before 0.26.2 preallocates record vectors sized by the untrusted ANCOUNT, NSCOUNT, and ARCOUNT header fields before reading record data. Remote attackers can send a UDP datagram, or a spoofed response to a client/resolver, with these counts set to 65535, forcing about 18MB of allocation per message. | |
| Title | Hickory DNS from 0.18 before 0.26.2 Memory Amplification DoS via RR Counts | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-08T01:38:07.919Z
Reserved: 2026-11-06T00:53:14.313Z
Link: CVE-2026-123570
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-11-08T02:16:49.830
Modified: 2026-11-08T02:16:49.830
Link: CVE-2026-123570
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Updated: 2026-11-08T02:45:18Z
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