Bug 2477296 (CVE-2026-42304) - CVE-2026-42304 python-twisted: Twisted: Denial of Service via crafted DNS packets in twisted.names
Summary: CVE-2026-42304 python-twisted: Twisted: Denial of Service via crafted DNS pac...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-42304
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-13 21:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-07 09:34 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-13 21:01:31 UTC
Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to 26.4.0rc2, the twisted.names module is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack via resource exhaustion during DNS name decompression. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted TCP DNS packet containing deeply chained compression pointers. This flaw bypasses previous loop-prevention logic, causing the single-threaded Twisted reactor to hang while processing millions of recursive lookups, effectively freezing the server. This vulnerability is fixed in 26.4.0rc2.


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