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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-24030 (CVE-2026-24030)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-03-31 12:16 – Updated: 2026-05-20 15:26 – Source website

Details

An attacker might be able to trick DNSdist into allocating too much memory while processing DNS over QUIC or DNS over HTTP/3 payloads, resulting in a denial of service. In setups with a large quantity of memory available this usually results in an exception and the QUIC connection is properly closed, but in some cases the system might enter an out-of-memory state instead and terminate the process.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


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

7.5 (High)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-24030	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24030	REPORT
	https://www.dnsdist.org/security-advisories/power…	REPORT
	https://downloads.powerdns.com/patches/2026-02/	REPORT

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CVE-2026-24030 (GCVE-0-2026-24030)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-31 12:01 – Updated: 2026-03-31 13:14

Title

Unbounded memory allocation for DoQ and DoH3

Summary

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-03-31 13:14 UTC

CWE

Uncontrolled Memory Allocation
CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Assigner

OX CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 61/100 over 74 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.dnsdist.org/security-advisories/power…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
PowerDNS	DNSdist	Affected: 1.9.0 , < 1.9.12 (semver) Affected: 2.0.0 , < 2.0.3 (semver)

Date Public

2026-03-30 22:00

Credits

XavLimSG

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