CVE detail
CVE-2026-56416
In NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.1, when the validator builds the canonical RDATA form for an RRSIG-covered PX/RP/MINFO/SOA RRset, it computes the address of the second embedded domain name as 'datstart + dname_valid(datstart, ...)' and passes it straight to 'query_dname_tolower()' without checking that a second name is actually present in the RDATA. The wire-format parser accepts multi-dname RRs whose RDATA ends after the first name, so an attacker who runs a DNSSEC-signed authoritative server can deliver a record with an absent second domain name (e.g. SOA record) and cause 'query_dname_tolower()' to walk label-by-label through stale bytes in the per-worker 'env->scratch_buffer', past the end of that heap allocation if 'msg-buffer-size' has been lowered from the default. This leads to heap buffer overflow and on a release build the outcome relies heavily on the contents of the buffer tail and the adjacent heap chunk.
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Buzz score components · mention 11.0 · diversity 10.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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- CVE-2026-56416 Possible heap buffer overflow when validator canonicalizes RDATA that contains domain nameMicrosoft MSRC
Information published.
vendormsrc.microsoft.comJul 23, 2026, 8:03 AM - https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2026-56416.txtwww.nlnetlabs.nl
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Vendor Advisorywww.nlnetlabs.nlJul 22, 2026, 2:17 PM
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