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ALPINE-CVE-2026-12244

If NSD is configured as secondary for a zone, the primary of that zone can crash NSD with an AXFR containing a DNS message with a special crafted SVCB...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

If NSD is configured as secondary for a zone, the primary of that zone can crash NSD with an AXFR containing a DNS message with a special crafted SVCB RR with an rdata size of 65512, that let's an (uint16_t) variable that is used to allocate space needed for the RR wrap (because total size > 65535), causing a heap overflow. The attacker can perform a controlled (RCE class) head write of up to 65509 bytes

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.24 nsd

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.14.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.3-r0"}]}]

References

advisory security.alpinelinux.org