CVE-2026-32792Patch(nlnetlabs / unbound)

LOWCVSS 5.3 · MEDIUM

Signal is active with 3 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Patch nlnetlabs unbound systems immediately

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

NLnet Labs Unbound 1.6.2 up to and including version 1.25.0 has a denial of service vulnerability when compiled with DNSCrypt support ('--enable-dnscrypt'). A bad DNSCrypt query could underflow Unbound's DNSCrypt packet reading procedure that may lead to heap overflow. A malicious actor can exploit the vulnerability with a single bad DNSCrypt query that its decrypted plaintext consists entirely of '0x00' bytes and does not contain the expected '0x80' marker. Unbound would then start reading more bytes than necessary until it finds a non-'0x00' byte. Based on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout, it could lead to heap overflow while reading followed by a crash. Likelihood of a crash is low, since it relies heavily on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout. If the heap overflow does not happen, Unbound's later packet checks will deny the packet. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to bound reading in the given buffer space.

0.5/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-125CWE-166

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

NONE

Patch

AVAILABLE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • unbound

Threat summary

  • Patch or workaround signal is available
  • 3 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • Patch or workaround mentioned in 3 signals
  • Technical details provided in 2 signals
  • 3 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Vendors
Products
unbound

Deep dive

Activity timeline3 mentions / 1d
01223Mentions · 2026-05-20: 3Patch / Workaround · 2026-05-20: 3Technical Details · 2026-05-20: 205-20
Signal classification1 categories
Patch
3100.0%
Referenced assets2 URLs
Full discourse3 posts
  • Yasuhiro Morishita@OrangeMorishita
    Patch

    ・Fix CVE-2026-33278, Possible remote code execution during DNSSEC validation. Thanks to Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks, for the report. ・Fix CVE-2026-42944, Heap overflow and crash with multiple nsid, cookie, padding EDNS options. Thanks to Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks, for the report. ・Fix CVE-2026-42959, Crash during DNSSEC validation of malicious content. Thanks to Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks, for the report. ・Fix CVE-2026-32792, Packet of death with DNSCrypt. Thanks to Andrew Griffiths from ‘http://calif.io’ for the report. ・Fix CVE-2026-40622, “Ghost domain name” variant. Thanks to Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks, for the report. ・Fix CVE-2026-41292, Parsing a long list of incoming EDNS options degrades performance. Thanks to GitHub user ‘N0zoM1z0’, also Qifan Zhang from Palo Alto Networks, for the report. ・Fix CVE-2026-42534, Jostle logic bypass degrades resolution performance. Thanks to Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks, for the report. ・Fix CVE-2026-42923, Degradation of service with unbounded NSEC3 hash calculations. Thanks to Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks, for the report. ・Fix CVE-2026-42960, Possible cache poisoning attack while following delegation. Thanks to TaoFei Guo from Peking University, Yang Luo and JianJun Chen, Tsinghua University, for the report. ・Fix CVE-2026-44390, Unbounded name compression in certain cases causes degradation of service. Thanks to Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks, for the report. ・Fix CVE-2026-44608, Use after free and crash in RPZ code. Thanks to Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks, for the report.

    Post summary

    The text lists several CVE fixes with brief vulnerability descriptions and acknowledges reporters, indicating patch releases with no evidence of active exploitation or PoC.

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  • Yasuhiro Morishita@OrangeMorishita
    Patch

    "This release consolidates security fixes for issues reported over a period of time. There are fixes for CVE-2026-33278, CVE-2026-42944, CVE-2026-42959, CVE-2026-32792, CVE-2026-40622, CVE-2026-41292, CVE-2026-42534, CVE-2026-42923, CVE-2026-42960, CVE-2026-44390 and CVE-2026-44608."

    Post summary

    The release is a patch update that fixes a set of listed CVEs, with no additional technical, exploit, or exploitation details provided.

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  • ThreatCluster@threatcluster
    Patch

    BREAKING: Ubuntu fixes 5 Unbound flaws including CVE-2026-32792 and CVE-2026-33278 affecting 22.04, 24.04, 25.10, 26.04 LTS with DoS and RCE risk, urges immediate updates. https://threatcluster.io/cluster/multiple-unbound-vulnerabilities-in-ubuntu-lead-to-dos-and-r-b8dadf0b

    Post summary

    Ubuntu has released patches for five Unbound vulnerabilities (including CVE-2026-32792 and CVE-2026-33278) that could allow DoS and RCE on multiple LTS releases; users are urged to update immediately.

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