UBUNTU-CVE-2026-32665: High severity ubuntu/unbound vulnerability

Published Jul 22, 2026
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Updated

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 (streamid 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.

Affected Software

2 affected componentsFixes available
ubuntu/unbound<1.25.1-1ubuntu3.1
1.25.1-1ubuntu3.1
ubuntu/unbound<1.24.2-1ubuntu2.4
1.24.2-1ubuntu2.4

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/unbound to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.25.1-1ubuntu3.1
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade ubuntu/unbound to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.24.2-1ubuntu2.4

Event History

Jul 22, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·02:17 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·02:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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