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High 8.1Published Jun 25, 2026
CVE-2026-12246NSD 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…
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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
- 8.1 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20, CWE-120
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Jun 26, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
nlnetlabs nsd nlnetlabs:nsd | from 4.14.0 before 4.14.3 | NVD |
References
- https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/nsd/CVE-2026-12246.txtpatch, vendor-advisory
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