Security Advisory

CVE-2026-12244

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-06-25 05:24:08
Last updated 2026-06-25 12:45:34
Assigner NLnet Labs
CVSS score 8.7
State PUBLISHED

Description

If NSD is configured as secondary for a zone, the primary of that zone can crash NSD with an AXFR containing a DNS message with a special crafted SVCB RR with an rdata size of 65512, that let's an (uint16_t) variable that is used to allocate space needed for the RR wrap (because total size > 65535), causing a heap overflow. The attacker can perform a controlled (RCE class) head write of up to 65509 bytes