CVE-2026-12244

HIGH

NLnet Labs - Heap Overflow and Crash with Crafted SVCB RR

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0032
EPSS Percentile 25.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-122 CWE-190
Status published
Products (2)
NLnet Labs/NSD 4.14.0 - 4.14.3
nlnetlabs/nsd 4.14.0 - 4.14.3
Published Jun 25, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 25, 2026