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SUSE-SU-2026:3431-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2026-07-30 18:50 - Updated: 2026-09-17 16:37

Summary

Security update for perl-Net-DNS

Severity

Important

Notes

Title of the patch: Security update for perl-Net-DNS

Description of the patch: This update for perl-Net-DNS fixes the following issue - CVE-2026-64194: RFC 1035 compression pointers are followed via recursion with no depth limit established, which can lead to DoS when specially crafted DNS packets are parsed (bsc#1272214).

Patchnames: SUSE-2026-3431,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2026-3431,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2026-3431

CVE-2026-64194

7.5 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Recommended 17 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.aarch64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.s390x	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.aarch64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.s390x	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.aarch64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.s390x	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.aarch64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.s390x	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:perl-Net-DNS-0:0.73-5.3.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact important

References

8 references

URL	Category
https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/	external
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/s…	self
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/…	self
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2026…	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1272214	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-64194/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-64194	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1272214	external

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CVE-2026-64194 (GCVE-0-2026-64194)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-20 17:55 – Updated: 2026-08-30 20:06

Title

Net::DNS versions through 1.55 for Perl allow Denial of Service via deep DNS compression pointer chains

Summary

Net::DNS versions through 1.55 for Perl allow Denial of Service via deep DNS compression pointer chains. Net::DNS::DomainName::decode follows RFC 1035 compression pointers by recursing into itself with no depth limit. It is possible to construct a name which saturates the call stack (at least with larger TCP responses), leading to a potential Denial of Service. The guard `$link < $offset` prevents forward and circular chains, but still allows arbitrarily long backward chains. The per-offset cache (`$cache`) is populated at the start of each call and short-circuits only re-traverses of the same offset - the initial descent through a fresh chain still recurses at full depth. A crafted packet can chain two-byte compression pointers so that each one points two bytes earlier than the previous, producing a chain length of `offset / 2`. For the 14-bit pointer field (max offset 16383) this gives up to ~8191 recursive frames. For a TCP DNS message the limit is the 16-bit length field (~32767 frames). Perl's default C stack handles only a few thousand frames; beyond that the process receives SIGSEGV or similar, which is a denial-of-service for any application parsing untrusted DNS data. The vulnerability is triggered by `Net::DNS::Packet->new(\$wire)` i.e. any point where the library decodes a DNS message from the network.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-21 18:55 UTC

CWE

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

Assigner

CPANSec redhat root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://www.net-dns.org/blog/#release-candidate-f…
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=179946	issue-tracking
https://metacpan.org/release/NLNETLABS/Net-DNS-1.…	release-notes
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/0…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
NLNETLABS	Net::DNS	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.55 (custom)

Credits

Steffen Ullrich

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