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 (stream_id 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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade unbound | Oct 28, 2026 | Jul 22, 2026 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade unbound | Sep 21, 2026 | Jul 22, 2026 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade unbound | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 25, 2026 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade unbound (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libunbound2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libunbound8Upgrade unboundUpgrade libunbound8 (Ubuntu Pro) | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Aug 10, 2026 | Jul 22, 2026 |
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