CVE-2026-24030 PUBLISHED

Unbounded memory allocation for DoQ and DoH3

Assigner: OX
Reserved: 20.01.2026 Published: 31.03.2026 Updated: 31.03.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor PowerDNS
Product DNSdist
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1.9.0 to 1.9.12 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.0.0 to 2.0.3 (excl.)

Credits

  • XavLimSG finder

References

Problem Types

  • Uncontrolled Memory Allocation CWE