NLnet Labs Unbound, 1.22.0 up to and including version 1.26.1, contains a DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) lifetime bug reachable by a remote DoQ client under multi-threaded operation. A client-triggered QUIC path migration can enter stream/connection cleanup while a mesh reply still retains a pointer to the DoQ stream. Cleanup frees the DoQ stream and when the pending mesh reply later completes it dereferences a stale pointer leading to a crash.
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This issue is fixed starting with version 1.26.2
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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:15:00 +0000
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| Description | NLnet Labs Unbound, 1.22.0 up to and including version 1.26.1, contains a DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) lifetime bug reachable by a remote DoQ client under multi-threaded operation. A client-triggered QUIC path migration can enter stream/connection cleanup while a mesh reply still retains a pointer to the DoQ stream. Cleanup frees the DoQ stream and when the pending mesh reply later completes it dereferences a stale pointer leading to a crash. | |
| Title | DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) path-migration can lead to use-after-free on multi-threaded deployments. | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-416 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: NLnet Labs
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Updated: 2026-10-21T08:57:41.106Z
Reserved: 2026-10-14T09:16:14.090Z
Link: CVE-2026-97206
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-21T09:17:08.473
Modified: 2026-10-21T09:17:08.473
Link: CVE-2026-97206
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