Bug 2479779 (CVE-2026-32792) - CVE-2026-32792 unbound: Packet of death with DNSCrypt
Summary: CVE-2026-32792 unbound: Packet of death with DNSCrypt
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-32792
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-05-19 10:39 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-26 03:44 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-19 10:39:11 UTC
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 includes a fix to bound reading in the given buffer space.


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