UBUNTU-CVE-2026-123578: Medium severity ubuntu/rust-hickory-proto vulnerability
Published Nov 9, 2026
·Updated
Hickory DNS hickory-net 0.26.0 before 0.26.2 and hickory-proto 0.25.0 through 0.25.2 skip the check that a UDP response's question section matches the query when the response has an empty question section (QDCOUNT=0), and also skip the case-randomization check. Remote attackers able to inject spoofed UDP responses can send QDCOUNT=0 responses to bypass these checks, weakening defenses against DNS spoofing.
Affected Software
4 affected components
ubuntu/rust-hickory-proto*
ubuntu/rust-hickory-net*
ubuntu/rust-hickory-proto*
ubuntu/rust-hickory-proto*
Event History
Nov 9, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·12:00 AM
Data Sourced
via OSV·12:00 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software
Frequently Asked Questions
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Which Ubuntu packages are identified as affected?
The affected Ubuntu packages are rust-hickory-proto and rust-hickory-net.