CVE-2026-56416CWE-354

Possible heap buffer overflow when validator canonicalizes RDATA that contains domain name

Medium · published July 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00124 · 2.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-354 · Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value
Published
2026-07-22T13:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 JUL 13:10Z
    Possible heap buffer overflow when validator canonicalizes RDATA that contains domain name
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