Bug 2506128 (CVE-2026-14586) - CVE-2026-14586 unbound: Unbound: Denial of Service via assertion failure in DNS-over-QUIC environments
Summary: CVE-2026-14586 unbound: Unbound: Denial of Service via assertion failure in D...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-14586
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2506834
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Reported: 2026-07-22 14:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-31 13:32 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-22 14:01:21 UTC
In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.22.0 up to and including 1.25.1, in DNS-over-QUIC environments, with high concurrency and under pressure, an assertion in libngtcp2 about monotonic timestamps could trigger and result in server termination and thus denial of service. When interfacing with libngtcp2, for DNS-over-QUIC support in Unbound, it is expected to use monotonic time. Unbound was using realtime instead, and in DoQ environments with high concurrency and under pressure, an assert in libngtcp2 for the quic timestamp would trigger and terminate the server.This vulnerability needs Unbound to be compiled with DoQ support ('--with-libngtcp2') and the 'quic-port' to be configured for the listening interfaces.


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