Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting dnsdist package, versions [,1.9.13)[2.0.0-alpha0,2.0.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DNSDIST-16299933
  • published26 Apr 2026
  • disclosed23 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-33596  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade dnsdist to version 1.9.13, 2.0.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound via the TCP backend stream ID process. An attacker can disrupt the correspondence between queries and responses by sending a flood of precisely timed queries to a TCP-only or DNS over TLS backend, potentially leading to service disruption.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1