CVE-2026-11721

CVE-2026-11721 describes a cache-poisoning risk in BIND 9 when an attacker’s DNS zone responds with an RRSIG that contains fewer labels than the zone hosting the RRSIG. This causes named to generate a wildcard name for a zone shorter than the attacker’s, potentially enabling cache poisoning. The ...

CVE-2026-11721 Cache poisoning possible with label count discrepancy, RRSIG, and wildcards

It is possible for an attacker's zone to respond to a query with an RRSIG that has a smaller number of labels than the zone in which the RRSIG is contained. This causes named to produce a wildcard name for a zone that is shorter than the attacker's zone, which can result in cache poisoning. For...