Twisted has a Denial of Service (DoS) in twisted.names via Crafted DNS Compression Pointer Chains

Details 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 previo...

PT-2026-37262

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Twisted versions prior to 26.4.0 Description The twisted.names module is susceptible to a Denial of Service DoS attack caused by resource exhaustion during DNS name decompression. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted...