UnratedFix available
unbound: Fix of CVE-2026-81642
Type: advisorySources: OSV
- 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
- Products
- python3-unbound, unbound, unbound-devel, unbound-libs
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.16.2-5.el8.tuxcare.els11
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-81642
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 10:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
- 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
osv:CLSA-2026-1790264021
python3-unbound
Fixed versions: 1.16.2-5.el8.tuxcare.els11
unbound
Fixed versions: 1.16.2-5.el8.tuxcare.els11
unbound-devel
Fixed versions: 1.16.2-5.el8.tuxcare.els11
unbound-libs
Fixed versions: 1.16.2-5.el8.tuxcare.els11
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CLSA-2026-1790264021",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "unbound: Fix of CVE-2026-81642",
"summary": "- 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",
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"modified": "2026-10-26T09:30:55.762251533Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"https://errata.tuxcare.com/els_os/centos-stream8els/CLSA-2026-1790264021.html",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-81642"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 447340,
"published_at": "2026-09-24T15:33:51+00:00"
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