Bug 2509271 - CVE-2026-52863 unbound: Unbound: Denial of service due to memory corruption under specific configurations. [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-52863 unbound: Unbound: Denial of service due to memory corruption u...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: unbound
Version: 45
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Paul Wouters
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-52863
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Reported: 2026-07-30 13:01 UTC by Srikanth Balasubramanian
Modified: 2026-08-17 15:41 UTC (History)
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-07-30 13:01:42 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.

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 up to and including 1.25.1, a fix that makes the 'respip' and 'dns64' modules work together, creates a shallow copy of the view name in effect that could lead to memory corruption if the owner of the original view name is jostled out when Unbound is under pressure. Unbound needs to be configured with one of 'respip'/'rpz' modules, together with a module that can attach subqueries (respip CNAME redirection, dns64, subnetcache) and a configured 'access-control-view' while Unbound is under pressure so that joslte logic kicks in and starts dropping slow queries. The subquery is getting a shallow copy of the view name and if the super query which owns the view name is jostled out, memory corruption can occur. Likelihood of a crash is low, since it relies heavily on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout. Debug memory builds (e.g., ASAN) that catch the free terminate the server.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:41:21 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.


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