CVE-2026-32665 — Remote DNS-over-QUIC denial of service due to `quic-size` budget bypass

Affected: NLnet Labs Unbound

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.22.0 up to and including 1.25.1, when downstream DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) is enabled, the first two bidirectional streams on a new QUIC connection (stream_id 0 and 4) bypass the per-stream 'quic-size' gate entirely, and large input buffers are allocated later, after only the 2-byte length prefix has been received from the initial streams. As a result, a remote client can make Unbound exceed the configured 'quic-size' limit with low-cost input. Using only one connection and two streams, each sending a declared 65535-byte length prefix and then holding the streams open, a client can already trivially make Unbound roughly allocate double that amount. This is a remote availability issue / memory-accounting bypass in the downstream DoQ implementation that leads to denial of service for new DoQ clients. This vulnerability needs Unbound to be compiled with DoQ support ('--with-libngtcp2') and the 'quic-port' to be configured for the listening interfaces.

USN-8946-1 — unbound vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS: unbound, Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS: unbound, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: unbound, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: unbound, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: unbound, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: unbound, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: unbound

It was discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain TCP connections. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Unbound to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-80225)

It was discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain DNS responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to crash Unbound, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-81634)

It was discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain DNS responses during DNSSEC validation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Unbound to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2026-85501)

It was discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled outgoing network ports. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to crash Unbound, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-50252)

It was discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain DNSCrypt packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to crash Unbound, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-40691)

It was discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain cached DNS responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to poison Unbound's cache. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 L…

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CVE-2026-32665 — Remote DNS-over-QUIC denial of service due to `quic-size` budget bypass

USN-8946-1 — unbound vulnerabilities