Bug 2453344 (CVE-2026-24030)

Summary: CVE-2026-24030 DNSdist: DNSdist: Denial of Service via excessive memory allocation from DNS over QUIC or HTTP/3 payloads
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A flaw was found in DNSdist. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted DNS over QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) or DNS over HTTP/3 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 3) payloads. This could trick DNSdist into allocating excessive memory, leading to a denial of service. In some cases, this might cause the system to run out of memory and terminate the DNSdist process.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-03-31 13:02:02 UTC
An attacker might be able to trick DNSdist into allocating too much memory while processing DNS over QUIC or DNS over HTTP/3 payloads, resulting in a denial of service. In setups with a large quantity of memory available this usually results in an exception and the QUIC connection is properly closed, but in some cases the system might enter an out-of-memory state instead and terminate the process.