Unbounded resend loop in BIND 9 resolver

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CVE-2026-5950

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. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.36 throu...

CVE-2026-5950 Unbounded resend loop in BIND 9 resolver

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. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.36 throu...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-5950

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. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.36 throu...

CVE-2026-5950

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. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.36 throu...

bind: Resource exhaustion via malformed DNSKEY handling

A vulnerability was found in BIND 9 resolvers, where processing malformed DNSKEY records from a specially crafted zone can lead to resource exhaustion, primarily causing excessive CPU utilization. This issue enables a remote, unauthenticated attacker to degrade resolver performance and potentiall...

ALPINE-CVE-2023-2911

If the recursive-clients quota is reached on a BIND 9 resolver configured with both stale-answer-enable yes; and stale-answer-client-timeout 0;, a sequence of serve-stale-related lookups could cause named to loop and terminate unexpectedly due to a stack overflow. This issue affects BIND 9 versio...

bind: BIND 9 resolvers configured to answer from cache with zero stale-answer-timeout may terminate unexpectedly

A flaw was found in the Bind package, where the resolver can crash when stale cache and stale answers are enabled, option stale-answer-client-timeout is set to 0 and there is a stale CNAME in the cache for an incoming query. By sending specific queries to the resolver, an attacker can cause named...