CVE-2026-81642

In NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including 1.26.0, a vulnerability was found in the DNSSEC validator that enables denial of service and possible remote code execution as a result of digesting DNSKEYs. A DNSKEY with an owner compression pointer to its own RDATA can overflow the digest buffer. Remote code execution is possible through attacker controlled data. An adversary can exploit the vulnerability by controlling a malicious zone and querying a vulnerable Unbound.

Unbound is a validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver. It is designed to be fast and lean and incorporates modern features based on open standards. To help increase online privacy, Unbound supports DNS-over-TLS which allows clients to encrypt their communication. Unbound is available for most platforms such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MacOS, Linux and Microsoft Windows. Unbound is a totally free, open source software under the BSD license. It doesn't make custom builds or provide specific features to paying customers only.

Security Fix(es):

In NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including 1.26.0, a vulnerability was found in the DNSSEC validator that enables denial of service and possible remote code execution as a result of digesting DNSKEYs. A DNSKEY with an owner compression pointer to its own RDATA can overflow the digest buffer. Remote code execution is possible through attacker controlled data. An adversary can exploit the vulnerability by controlling a malicious zone and querying a vulnerable Unbound.(CVE-2026-81642)

The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

Security Fix(es):

• unbound: Unbound: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in CNAME Synthesis (CVE-2026-82717)

• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow via malicious DNSSEC response (CVE-2026-81634)

• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (CVE-2026-81642)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

Security Fix(es):

• unbound: Unbound: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in CNAME Synthesis (CVE-2026-82717)

• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow via malicious DNSSEC response (CVE-2026-81634)

• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (CVE-2026-81642)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

Security Fix(es):

• unbound: Unbound: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in CNAME Synthesis (CVE-2026-82717)

• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow via malicious DNSSEC response (CVE-2026-81634)

• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (CVE-2026-81642)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

In NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including 1.26.0, a vulnerability was found in the DNSSEC validator that enables denial of service and possible remote code execution as a result of digesting DNSKEYs. A DNSKEY with an owner compression pointer to its own RDATA can overflow the digest buffer. Remote code execution is possible through attacker controlled data. An adversary can exploit the vulnerability by controlling a malicious zone and querying a vulnerable Unbound.

The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

Security Fix(es):

• unbound: Unbound: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in CNAME Synthesis (CVE-2026-82717)
• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow via malicious DNSSEC response (CVE-2026-81634)
• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (CVE-2026-81642)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

Security Fix(es):

• unbound: Unbound: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in CNAME Synthesis (CVE-2026-82717)
• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow via malicious DNSSEC response (CVE-2026-81634)
• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (CVE-2026-81642)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

Security Fix(es):

• unbound: Unbound: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in CNAME Synthesis (CVE-2026-82717)
• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow via malicious DNSSEC response (CVE-2026-81634)
• unbound: Unbound: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (CVE-2026-81642)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

In NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including 1.26.0, a vulnerability was found in the DNSSEC validator that enables denial of service and possible remote code execution as a result of digesting DNSKEYs. A DNSKEY with an owner compression pointer to its own RDATA can overflow the digest buffer. Remote code execution is possible through attacker controlled data. An adversary can exploit the vulnerability by controlling a malicious zone and querying a vulnerable Unbound.

• CVE-2026-81642: check the scratch buffer capacity in ds_create_dnskey_digest() before writing the DNSKEY owner name and RDATA into it, so a DNSKEY whose owner name plus RDATA exceeds the buffer can no longer overflow it

• CVE-2026-81642: check the scratch buffer capacity in ds_create_dnskey_digest() before writing the DNSKEY owner name and RDATA into it, so a DNSKEY whose decompressed owner name plus RDATA exceeds the buffer can no longer overflow it

• CVE-2026-81642: check the scratch buffer capacity in ds_create_dnskey_digest() before writing the DNSKEY owner name and RDATA, so a DNSKEY whose owner name is a compression pointer into its own RDATA can no longer overflow the digest buffer during DS validation; includes the upstream unit test that exercises the bound with an undersized buffer

• CVE-2026-81642: fix heap buffer overflow when digesting DNSKEY
• CVE-2026-81634: add the missing first owner name and signature length bounds checks to rrset_canonical(), preventing a heap buffer overflow during RRset canonicalisation
• CVE-2026-82717: restore the packet buffer position on malformed names in pkt_dname_len() and bound the copy lengths in rdata_copy(), preventing heap corruption on the CNAME synthesis error path
• CVE-2026-85501: bound DNSSEC validation work per query: key-tag matches capped at 256, NSEC/NSEC3 verifications at 8 per message, new val-validation-attempts and val-hash-attempts options (default 32), oversized referral DS RRsets shortened to 20, and val-clean-additional now defaults to no

Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY Possible heap buffer overflow during DNSSEC canonicalization CNAME synthesis could lead to heap corruption Possible ZONEMD verification bypass window Use-after-free in DoQ stream output buffer on reset re-transmission Possible degradation of service from continuous queries on the same TCP/DoT connection Use-after-free in DoH stream cleanup code path Retrap: Novel Vulnerabilities to launch Algorithmic Complexity Attacks on DNSSEC 'serve-expired' can bypass Unbound 'wait-limit' Remote DNS-over-QUIC denial of service due to 'quic-size' budget bypass Packet of death for DNSCrypt over TCP Cross-zone wildcard cache poisoning via RRSIG.labels manipulation 'dns-error-reporting: yes' leads to stack buffer overflow Assertion in libngtcp2 when under pressure in high concurrency DNS-over-QUIC environments Libunbound applications configured with 'unwanted-reply-threshold' could eventually be abruptly terminated 'max-global-quota' reset by DNSSEC validation restarts Possible heap use-after-free in an error path when a DoT forwarded query is jostled out 'response-ip'/'rpz' can rewrite BOGUS answers instead of returning SERVFAIL BOGUS configured primary hostname accepted for XFR in auth/rpz zones Date: Attacker supplied '0.0.0.0'/'::' glue triggers defensive full-cache flush Possible cache poisoning attack by mapping source port population per thread Memory corruption could lead to crash and denial of service 'serve-expired-client-timeout' and 'response-ip' CNAME redirect could lead to a crash Packet of death for a DNSCrypt misconfigured Unbound Remote DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) flow-control assertion failure in libngtcp2 Possible heap buffer overflow when validator canonicalizes RDATA that contains domain name Degradation of resolution service when 'discard-timeout' and 'serve-expired-client-timeout' are combined in unusual configuration Degradation of resolution service from improperly accounted client-terminated DNS-over-QUIC queries Extra fix for CVE-2026-40622 to also clamp the TTL of A/AAAA records disallowing a one-time 'ghost domain' delegation renewal via glue records Off-by-one error in 'harden-below-nxdomain' logic can shadow a stub/forward zone by a legitimate parent's NXDOMAIN A wildcard replay, as another piece of data, triggers poisoning in the serve expired reply path DNS Cookie bypass when combined with proxy-protocol use Privacy/configuration issue when adding local data in views through 'unbound-control' Possible arbitrary code execution during DNSSEC validation Heap overflow with multiple NSID, COOKIE, PADDING EDNS options Crash during DNSSEC validation of malicious content Date: Packet of death with DNSCrypt Another "ghost domain names" attack variant Long list of incoming EDNS options degrades performance Jostle logic bypass degrades resolution performance Degradation of service with unbounded NSEC3 hash calculations Possible cache poisoning via promiscuous records for the authority section Unbounded name compression in certain cases causes degradation of service Use after free and crash under special conditions in RPZ code Possible domain hijacking via promiscuous records in the authority section Cache poisoning via the ECS-enabled Rebirthday Attack Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service Unbound vulnerable to the "DNSBomb" pulsing DoS amplification attack Denial of service when trimming EDE text on positive replies DNSSEC verification complexity can be exploited to exhaust CPU resources and stall DNS resolvers NSEC3 closest encloser proof can exhaust CPU Non-Responsive Delegation Attack Novel "ghost domain names" attack by updating almost expired delegation information Novel "ghost domain names" attack by introducing subdomain delegations Local symlink attack Vulnerability in Domain Parse NXNSAttack Vulnerability in IPSEC module Vulnerability in parsing NOTIFY queries Vulnerability in the processing of wildcard synthesized NSEC…

These are all security issues fixed in the libunbound8-1.26.1-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

This update for unbound fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2026-77860: 'serve-expired' can bypass Unbound 'wait-limit' (bsc#1280403).
• CVE-2026-77955: Possible ZONEMD verification bypass window (bsc#1280404).
• CVE-2026-78227: Use-after-free in DoQ stream output buffer on reset re-transmission (bsc#1280405).
• CVE-2026-80225: Possible degradation of service from continuous queries on the same TCP/DoT connection (bsc#1280406).
• CVE-2026-81634: Possible heap buffer overflow during DNSSEC canonicalization (bsc#1280409).
• CVE-2026-81642: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (bsc#1280411).
• CVE-2026-82717: CNAME synthesis could lead to heap corruption (bsc#1280412).
• CVE-2026-82720: Use-after-free in DoH stream cleanup code path (bsc#1280413).
• CVE-2026-85501: Retrap: Novel Vulnerabilities to launch Algorithmic Complexity Attacks on DNSSEC (bsc#1280414).

Changes for unbound:

• Update to 1.26.1:

• Update icannbundle.pem certificates in unbound-anchor, valid for 2009-2029 and 2025-2045
• Add max-transfer-size and max-transfer-time options to limit auth-zone and rpz transfer size and time, default disabled
• Overload local_data_remove in unbound-control to also remove specific records
• Add local-zone types block_aaaa, block_a_wdata and block_aaaa_wdata; fix respip+dns64 to use original A records instead of ones already modified by respip
• ipsecmod hook script now needs to start with '#!/bin/sh', it is executed with execv instead of system for security
• Server now continues to start if a secondary zone fails to load from its zonefile, or if a primary zonefile is missing; $INCLUDE is no longer allowed in secondary zone zonefiles
• Auth-zone and RPZ zones now drop out-of-zone content on load
• Primary hostname for zone transfers can now use CNAME(s)
• Fix windows 64bit build for libssp dependency
• Update IANA portlist
• Fix heap out-of-bounds write via size_t-to-int truncation in setup_if()/outside_network_create() for large num_ports values
• Fix to clean up log ids after a failure to start a worker thread
• Relax assertions after the TTL 0 handling change in cachedb and packet_rrset_copy_region
• Fix val_find_DS to check the result of packet_rrset_copy_region before using it
• Fix that dns64 answers check the AAAA query is DNSSEC validated, improving RFC6147 conformance
• Fix allocation-failure hardening of rrset cache wildcard storage and canonical NSEC owner replacement
• Fix DNSSEC validation and DNSKEY size calculation for noncanonical RSA DNSKEYs with leading zeroes
• Fix mixed class referrals to use the query class
• Fix serve-expired responses from cachedb to not store bogus data
• Fix lame server detection for selfpointed glue records
• Fix cleanup of DoH sessions when the same query is on multiple streams
• Fix for signed same-owner CNAME and ordinary RRset responses
• Fix mesh new client/callback to roll back added address, tcp mesh state and callback on initialization failure
• Fix autotrust state-file line overflow that could give a hold-down bypass
• Fix to limit the DSNS per-label walk in the iterator
• Fix that the ratelimit is decremented on successful referrals
• Fix msgencode insert_query assertion for a local_alias
• Fix to reset the tcp-timeout before applying a load based reduction
• Fix to correctly decrement per-netblock tcp connection limits
• Fix, in depth, for respip rewrite of dns64 responses
• Fix that dns64 with subnetcache does not write ECS scoped answers to the global cache
• Fix ipset module name-too-long checks and race conditions on the local name buffer and socket close
• Fix validator to cap the number of ANY RRsets it validates and shorten the wait timer
• Fix race condition causing segfault when starting threads
• Fix header_seen detection for trust anchor files to detect the id line
• Fix heap use-after-free in class response processing when at least two distinct classes are…

Root has patched CVE-2026-81642 in the unbound package for Root:Debian:12. Multiple fixed versions available.

Root has patched CVE-2026-81642 in the unbound package for Root:Debian:13. Multiple fixed versions available.

This update for unbound fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2026-77860: 'serve-expired' can bypass Unbound 'wait-limit' (bsc#1280403).
• CVE-2026-77955: Possible ZONEMD verification bypass window (bsc#1280404).
• CVE-2026-78227: Use-after-free in DoQ stream output buffer on reset re-transmission (bsc#1280405).
• CVE-2026-80225: Possible degradation of service from continuous queries on the same TCP/DoT connection (bsc#1280406).
• CVE-2026-81634: Possible heap buffer overflow during DNSSEC canonicalization (bsc#1280409).
• CVE-2026-81642: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (bsc#1280411).
• CVE-2026-82717: CNAME synthesis could lead to heap corruption (bsc#1280412).
• CVE-2026-82720: Use-after-free in DoH stream cleanup code path (bsc#1280413).
• CVE-2026-85501: Retrap: Novel Vulnerabilities to launch Algorithmic Complexity Attacks on DNSSEC (bsc#1280414).

Changes for unbound:

• Update to 1.26.1:

• Update icannbundle.pem certificates in unbound-anchor, valid for 2009-2029 and 2025-2045
• Add max-transfer-size and max-transfer-time options to limit auth-zone and rpz transfer size and time, default disabled
• Overload local_data_remove in unbound-control to also remove specific records
• Add local-zone types block_aaaa, block_a_wdata and block_aaaa_wdata; fix respip+dns64 to use original A records instead of ones already modified by respip
• ipsecmod hook script now needs to start with '#!/bin/sh', it is executed with execv instead of system for security
• Server now continues to start if a secondary zone fails to load from its zonefile, or if a primary zonefile is missing; $INCLUDE is no longer allowed in secondary zone zonefiles
• Auth-zone and RPZ zones now drop out-of-zone content on load
• Primary hostname for zone transfers can now use CNAME(s)
• Fix windows 64bit build for libssp dependency
• Update IANA portlist
• Fix heap out-of-bounds write via size_t-to-int truncation in setup_if()/outside_network_create() for large num_ports values
• Fix to clean up log ids after a failure to start a worker thread
• Relax assertions after the TTL 0 handling change in cachedb and packet_rrset_copy_region
• Fix val_find_DS to check the result of packet_rrset_copy_region before using it
• Fix that dns64 answers check the AAAA query is DNSSEC validated, improving RFC6147 conformance
• Fix allocation-failure hardening of rrset cache wildcard storage and canonical NSEC owner replacement
• Fix DNSSEC validation and DNSKEY size calculation for noncanonical RSA DNSKEYs with leading zeroes
• Fix mixed class referrals to use the query class
• Fix serve-expired responses from cachedb to not store bogus data
• Fix lame server detection for selfpointed glue records
• Fix cleanup of DoH sessions when the same query is on multiple streams
• Fix for signed same-owner CNAME and ordinary RRset responses
• Fix mesh new client/callback to roll back added address, tcp mesh state and callback on initialization failure
• Fix autotrust state-file line overflow that could give a hold-down bypass
• Fix to limit the DSNS per-label walk in the iterator
• Fix that the ratelimit is decremented on successful referrals
• Fix msgencode insert_query assertion for a local_alias
• Fix to reset the tcp-timeout before applying a load based reduction
• Fix to correctly decrement per-netblock tcp connection limits
• Fix, in depth, for respip rewrite of dns64 responses
• Fix that dns64 with subnetcache does not write ECS scoped answers to the global cache
• Fix ipset module name-too-long checks and race conditions on the local name buffer and socket close
• Fix validator to cap the number of ANY RRsets it validates and shorten the wait timer
• Fix race condition causing segfault when starting threads
• Fix header_seen detection for trust anchor files to detect the id line
• Fix heap use-after-free in class response processing when at least two distinct classes are…

This update for unbound fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2026-77860: 'serve-expired' can bypass Unbound 'wait-limit' (bsc#1280403).
• CVE-2026-77955: Possible ZONEMD verification bypass window (bsc#1280404).
• CVE-2026-78227: Use-after-free in DoQ stream output buffer on reset re-transmission (bsc#1280405).
• CVE-2026-80225: Possible degradation of service from continuous queries on the same TCP/DoT connection (bsc#1280406).
• CVE-2026-81634: Possible heap buffer overflow during DNSSEC canonicalization (bsc#1280409).
• CVE-2026-81642: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (bsc#1280411).
• CVE-2026-82717: CNAME synthesis could lead to heap corruption (bsc#1280412).
• CVE-2026-82720: Use-after-free in DoH stream cleanup code path (bsc#1280413).
• CVE-2026-85501: Retrap: Novel Vulnerabilities to launch Algorithmic Complexity Attacks on DNSSEC (bsc#1280414).

Changes for unbound:

• Update to 1.26.1:

• Update icannbundle.pem certificates in unbound-anchor, valid for 2009-2029 and 2025-2045
• Add max-transfer-size and max-transfer-time options to limit auth-zone and rpz transfer size and time, default disabled
• Overload local_data_remove in unbound-control to also remove specific records
• Add local-zone types block_aaaa, block_a_wdata and block_aaaa_wdata; fix respip+dns64 to use original A records instead of ones already modified by respip
• ipsecmod hook script now needs to start with '#!/bin/sh', it is executed with execv instead of system for security
• Server now continues to start if a secondary zone fails to load from its zonefile, or if a primary zonefile is missing; $INCLUDE is no longer allowed in secondary zone zonefiles
• Auth-zone and RPZ zones now drop out-of-zone content on load
• Primary hostname for zone transfers can now use CNAME(s)
• Fix windows 64bit build for libssp dependency
• Update IANA portlist
• Fix heap out-of-bounds write via size_t-to-int truncation in setup_if()/outside_network_create() for large num_ports values
• Fix to clean up log ids after a failure to start a worker thread
• Relax assertions after the TTL 0 handling change in cachedb and packet_rrset_copy_region
• Fix val_find_DS to check the result of packet_rrset_copy_region before using it
• Fix that dns64 answers check the AAAA query is DNSSEC validated, improving RFC6147 conformance
• Fix allocation-failure hardening of rrset cache wildcard storage and canonical NSEC owner replacement
• Fix DNSSEC validation and DNSKEY size calculation for noncanonical RSA DNSKEYs with leading zeroes
• Fix mixed class referrals to use the query class
• Fix serve-expired responses from cachedb to not store bogus data
• Fix lame server detection for selfpointed glue records
• Fix cleanup of DoH sessions when the same query is on multiple streams
• Fix for signed same-owner CNAME and ordinary RRset responses
• Fix mesh new client/callback to roll back added address, tcp mesh state and callback on initialization failure
• Fix autotrust state-file line overflow that could give a hold-down bypass
• Fix to limit the DSNS per-label walk in the iterator
• Fix that the ratelimit is decremented on successful referrals
• Fix msgencode insert_query assertion for a local_alias
• Fix to reset the tcp-timeout before applying a load based reduction
• Fix to correctly decrement per-netblock tcp connection limits
• Fix, in depth, for respip rewrite of dns64 responses
• Fix that dns64 with subnetcache does not write ECS scoped answers to the global cache
• Fix ipset module name-too-long checks and race conditions on the local name buffer and socket close
• Fix validator to cap the number of ANY RRsets it validates and shorten the wait timer
• Fix race condition causing segfault when starting threads
• Fix header_seen detection for trust anchor files to detect the id line
• Fix heap use-after-free in class response processing when at least two distinct classes are…

This update for unbound fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2026-77860: 'serve-expired' can bypass Unbound 'wait-limit' (bsc#1280403).
• CVE-2026-77955: Possible ZONEMD verification bypass window (bsc#1280404).
• CVE-2026-78227: Use-after-free in DoQ stream output buffer on reset re-transmission (bsc#1280405).
• CVE-2026-80225: Possible degradation of service from continuous queries on the same TCP/DoT connection (bsc#1280406).
• CVE-2026-81634: Possible heap buffer overflow during DNSSEC canonicalization (bsc#1280409).
• CVE-2026-81642: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (bsc#1280411).
• CVE-2026-82717: CNAME synthesis could lead to heap corruption (bsc#1280412).
• CVE-2026-82720: Use-after-free in DoH stream cleanup code path (bsc#1280413).
• CVE-2026-85501: Retrap: Novel Vulnerabilities to launch Algorithmic Complexity Attacks on DNSSEC (bsc#1280414).

Changes for unbound:

• Update to 1.26.1:

• Update icannbundle.pem certificates in unbound-anchor, valid for 2009-2029 and 2025-2045
• Add max-transfer-size and max-transfer-time options to limit auth-zone and rpz transfer size and time, default disabled
• Overload local_data_remove in unbound-control to also remove specific records
• Add local-zone types block_aaaa, block_a_wdata and block_aaaa_wdata; fix respip+dns64 to use original A records instead of ones already modified by respip
• ipsecmod hook script now needs to start with '#!/bin/sh', it is executed with execv instead of system for security
• Server now continues to start if a secondary zone fails to load from its zonefile, or if a primary zonefile is missing; $INCLUDE is no longer allowed in secondary zone zonefiles
• Auth-zone and RPZ zones now drop out-of-zone content on load
• Primary hostname for zone transfers can now use CNAME(s)
• Fix windows 64bit build for libssp dependency
• Update IANA portlist
• Fix heap out-of-bounds write via size_t-to-int truncation in setup_if()/outside_network_create() for large num_ports values
• Fix to clean up log ids after a failure to start a worker thread
• Relax assertions after the TTL 0 handling change in cachedb and packet_rrset_copy_region
• Fix val_find_DS to check the result of packet_rrset_copy_region before using it
• Fix that dns64 answers check the AAAA query is DNSSEC validated, improving RFC6147 conformance
• Fix allocation-failure hardening of rrset cache wildcard storage and canonical NSEC owner replacement
• Fix DNSSEC validation and DNSKEY size calculation for noncanonical RSA DNSKEYs with leading zeroes
• Fix mixed class referrals to use the query class
• Fix serve-expired responses from cachedb to not store bogus data
• Fix lame server detection for selfpointed glue records
• Fix cleanup of DoH sessions when the same query is on multiple streams
• Fix for signed same-owner CNAME and ordinary RRset responses
• Fix mesh new client/callback to roll back added address, tcp mesh state and callback on initialization failure
• Fix autotrust state-file line overflow that could give a hold-down bypass
• Fix to limit the DSNS per-label walk in the iterator
• Fix that the ratelimit is decremented on successful referrals
• Fix msgencode insert_query assertion for a local_alias
• Fix to reset the tcp-timeout before applying a load based reduction
• Fix to correctly decrement per-netblock tcp connection limits
• Fix, in depth, for respip rewrite of dns64 responses
• Fix that dns64 with subnetcache does not write ECS scoped answers to the global cache
• Fix ipset module name-too-long checks and race conditions on the local name buffer and socket close
• Fix validator to cap the number of ANY RRsets it validates and shorten the wait timer
• Fix race condition causing segfault when starting threads
• Fix header_seen detection for trust anchor files to detect the id line
• Fix heap use-after-free in class response processing when at least two distinct classes are…

This update for unbound fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2026-77860: 'serve-expired' can bypass Unbound 'wait-limit' (bsc#1280403).
• CVE-2026-77955: Possible ZONEMD verification bypass window (bsc#1280404).
• CVE-2026-78227: Use-after-free in DoQ stream output buffer on reset re-transmission (bsc#1280405).
• CVE-2026-80225: Possible degradation of service from continuous queries on the same TCP/DoT connection (bsc#1280406).
• CVE-2026-81634: Possible heap buffer overflow during DNSSEC canonicalization (bsc#1280409).
• CVE-2026-81642: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (bsc#1280411).
• CVE-2026-82717: CNAME synthesis could lead to heap corruption (bsc#1280412).
• CVE-2026-82720: Use-after-free in DoH stream cleanup code path (bsc#1280413).
• CVE-2026-85501: Retrap: Novel Vulnerabilities to launch Algorithmic Complexity Attacks on DNSSEC (bsc#1280414).

Changes for unbound:

• Update to 1.26.1:

• Update icannbundle.pem certificates in unbound-anchor, valid for 2009-2029 and 2025-2045
• Add max-transfer-size and max-transfer-time options to limit auth-zone and rpz transfer size and time, default disabled
• Overload local_data_remove in unbound-control to also remove specific records
• Add local-zone types block_aaaa, block_a_wdata and block_aaaa_wdata; fix respip+dns64 to use original A records instead of ones already modified by respip
• ipsecmod hook script now needs to start with '#!/bin/sh', it is executed with execv instead of system for security
• Server now continues to start if a secondary zone fails to load from its zonefile, or if a primary zonefile is missing; $INCLUDE is no longer allowed in secondary zone zonefiles
• Auth-zone and RPZ zones now drop out-of-zone content on load
• Primary hostname for zone transfers can now use CNAME(s)
• Fix windows 64bit build for libssp dependency
• Update IANA portlist
• Fix heap out-of-bounds write via size_t-to-int truncation in setup_if()/outside_network_create() for large num_ports values
• Fix to clean up log ids after a failure to start a worker thread
• Relax assertions after the TTL 0 handling change in cachedb and packet_rrset_copy_region
• Fix val_find_DS to check the result of packet_rrset_copy_region before using it
• Fix that dns64 answers check the AAAA query is DNSSEC validated, improving RFC6147 conformance
• Fix allocation-failure hardening of rrset cache wildcard storage and canonical NSEC owner replacement
• Fix DNSSEC validation and DNSKEY size calculation for noncanonical RSA DNSKEYs with leading zeroes
• Fix mixed class referrals to use the query class
• Fix serve-expired responses from cachedb to not store bogus data
• Fix lame server detection for selfpointed glue records
• Fix cleanup of DoH sessions when the same query is on multiple streams
• Fix for signed same-owner CNAME and ordinary RRset responses
• Fix mesh new client/callback to roll back added address, tcp mesh state and callback on initialization failure
• Fix autotrust state-file line overflow that could give a hold-down bypass
• Fix to limit the DSNS per-label walk in the iterator
• Fix that the ratelimit is decremented on successful referrals
• Fix msgencode insert_query assertion for a local_alias
• Fix to reset the tcp-timeout before applying a load based reduction
• Fix to correctly decrement per-netblock tcp connection limits
• Fix, in depth, for respip rewrite of dns64 responses
• Fix that dns64 with subnetcache does not write ECS scoped answers to the global cache
• Fix ipset module name-too-long checks and race conditions on the local name buffer and socket close
• Fix validator to cap the number of ANY RRsets it validates and shorten the wait timer
• Fix race condition causing segfault when starting threads
• Fix header_seen detection for trust anchor files to detect the id line
• Fix heap use-after-free in class response processing when at least two distinct classes are…

This update for unbound fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2026-77860: 'serve-expired' can bypass Unbound 'wait-limit' (bsc#1280403).
• CVE-2026-77955: Possible ZONEMD verification bypass window (bsc#1280404).
• CVE-2026-78227: Use-after-free in DoQ stream output buffer on reset re-transmission (bsc#1280405).
• CVE-2026-80225: Possible degradation of service from continuous queries on the same TCP/DoT connection (bsc#1280406).
• CVE-2026-81634: Possible heap buffer overflow during DNSSEC canonicalization (bsc#1280409).
• CVE-2026-81642: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (bsc#1280411).
• CVE-2026-82717: CNAME synthesis could lead to heap corruption (bsc#1280412).
• CVE-2026-82720: Use-after-free in DoH stream cleanup code path (bsc#1280413).
• CVE-2026-85501: Retrap: Novel Vulnerabilities to launch Algorithmic Complexity Attacks on DNSSEC (bsc#1280414).

Changes for libunbound-devel-mini:

• Updated to version 1.26.1

Changes for unbound:

• Updated to version 1.26.1

This update for unbound fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2026-77860: 'serve-expired' can bypass Unbound 'wait-limit' (bsc#1280403).
• CVE-2026-77955: Possible ZONEMD verification bypass window (bsc#1280404).
• CVE-2026-78227: Use-after-free in DoQ stream output buffer on reset re-transmission (bsc#1280405).
• CVE-2026-80225: Possible degradation of service from continuous queries on the same TCP/DoT connection (bsc#1280406).
• CVE-2026-81634: Possible heap buffer overflow during DNSSEC canonicalization (bsc#1280409).
• CVE-2026-81642: Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY (bsc#1280411).
• CVE-2026-82717: CNAME synthesis could lead to heap corruption (bsc#1280412).
• CVE-2026-82720: Use-after-free in DoH stream cleanup code path (bsc#1280413).
• CVE-2026-85501: Retrap: Novel Vulnerabilities to launch Algorithmic Complexity Attacks on DNSSEC (bsc#1280414).

Changes for libunbound-devel-mini:

• Updated to version 1.26.1

Changes for unbound:

• Updated to version 1.26.1

Yuqi Qiu and Xiang Li discovered that Unbound did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-81642)

Ben Morris discovered that Unbound did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitary code. (CVE-2026-82717)