Bug 2494151 - CVE-2026-5950 dhcp: Unbounded resend loop in BIND 9 resolver [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-5950 dhcp: Unbounded resend loop in BIND 9 resolver [fedora-all]
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dhcp
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Osvald 🛹
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["3a57759e-d813-4edc-9988-1...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-5950
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Reported: 2026-06-29 11:31 UTC by Michal Findra
Modified: 2026-06-29 13:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-06-29 13:12:35 UTC
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Description Michal Findra 2026-06-29 11:31:01 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

An unbounded resend loop vulnerability exists in the BIND 9 resolver state machine during bad-server handling, enabling a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause severe resource exhaustion by sending queries that trigger specific retry conditions.

Comment 1 Martin Osvald 🛹 2026-06-29 13:12:35 UTC
ISC DHCP is not affected. It doesn't act as a DNS resolver. This is a BIND server-side issue.

ISC DHCP uses portions of the ISC BIND libraries (primarily libdns, omapi, and libisccfg) only to support DDNS (TSIG support, DNS message construction/parsing, DHCID generation), OMAPI related operations, basic functions (configuration handling, data structures, logging, networking primitives).


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