Infinite loop Affecting hickory-proto package, versions <0.26.0-beta.1
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- published3 May 2026
- disclosed1 May 2026
- creditDavid Cook
Introduced: 1 May 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-835 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade hickory-proto to version 0.26.0-beta.1 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop in the DnssecDnsHandle process. An attacker can cause the process to enter an unbounded loop and exhaust system memory by returning a DNS response with an authority section containing an SOA record that is not an ancestor of the queried name, triggering repeated allocations. This is only exploitable if the dnssec-ring or dnssec-aws-lc-rs feature is enabled and DNSSEC validation is configured.