Description
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.
Problem types
Uncontrolled Memory Allocation
Product status
1.9.0 (semver) before 1.9.12
2.0.0 (semver) before 2.0.3
Credits
XavLimSG
References
www.dnsdist.org/...owerdns-advisory-for-dnsdist-2026-02.html