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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: 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.

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1 Nov 2026, 17:12 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2026-12246

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Jun 2026, 07:16 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2026-12246
Complete source record
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