CVE-2026-12246

NSD version 4.14.0 introduced a bug where a specially crafted APL RR, with an adflength larger than permitted for the address family will overwrite the stack when the zone is written to disk, with a maximum of 111 attacker controlled bytes.

CVSS 4.0

7.2CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-20, CWE-120

Published

2026-06-25

Modified

2026-10-25

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-25

Affected

• nlnetlabs:nsd

References

• https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/nsd/CVE-2026-12246.txt

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