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CVE-2026-41292
Summary

NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to a degradation of service attack related to parsing long lists of incoming EDNS options. An adversary sending queries with too many EDNS options can hold Unbound threads hostage while they are parsing and creating internal data structures for the options. Coordinated attacks can result in degradation and/or denial of service. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix to limit acceptable incoming EDNS options (100).

Publication Date May 20, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
Registration Date May 21, 2026, 4:09 a.m.
Last Update May 20, 2026, 11:02 p.m.
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