-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:55:59 +0300 Source: unbound Architecture: source Version: 1.26.1-0+deb13u1 Distribution: trixie-security Urgency: medium Maintainer: unbound packagers Changed-By: Michael Tokarev Closes: 1096189 1142539 Changes: unbound (1.26.1-0+deb13u1) trixie-security; urgency=medium . * New upstream release fixing numerous security and other issues and contains some enhancements. . Traditionally in Debian, bugs in stable versions are fixed by providing a back-port of a fix from later upstream version to the version in Debian stable. With unbound, fixes in subsequent versions can not be applied directly to the version in Debian stable, as there were multiple other code changes in these areas. Many of these changes fixes other issues (security or not). Some changes are in areas with complex logic, hence requires creat care when back-porting to older releases. And the result of such back-porting becomes unique and rather unpredictable. So instead of trying to provide fixes for older version in Debian stable, we decided to provide current upstream version of unbound, - the same as currently available in Debian Sid. The packaging is made very similar too. . Recent security fixes: . o CVE-2026-81642 - severity: CRITICAL Heap buffer overflow and possible Remote Code Execution when digesting DNSKEY o CVE-2026-81634 - severity: HIGH Possible heap buffer overflow during DNSSEC canonicalization o CVE-2026-82717 - severity: HIGH CNAME synthesis could lead to heap corruption o CVE-2026-77955 - severity: MEDIUM Possible ZONEMD verification bypass window o CVE-2026-78227 - severity: MEDIUM Use-after-free in DoQ stream output buffer on reset re-transmission o CVE-2026-80225 - severity: MEDIUM Possible degradation of service from continuous queries on the same TCP/DoT connection o CVE-2026-82720 - severity: MEDIUM Use-after-free in DoH stream cleanup code path o CVE-2026-85501 - severity: MEDIUM Retrap: Novel Vulnerabilities to launch Algorithmic Complexity Attacks on DNSSEC o CVE-2026-77860 - severity: LOW 'serve-expired' can bypass Unbound 'wait-limit' o CVE-2026-32665 - severity: HIGH Remote DNS-over-QUIC denial of service due to `quic-size` budget bypass o CVE-2026-40691 - severity: HIGH Packet of death for DNSCrypt over TCP o CVE-2026-44690 - severity: HIGH Cross-zone wildcard cache poisoning via RRSIG.labels manipulation o CVE-2026-55973 - severity: HIGH 'dns-error-reporting: yes' leads to stack buffer overflow o CVE-2026-14586 - severity: MEDIUM Assertion in libngtcp2 when under pressure in high concurrency DNS-over-QUIC environments o CVE-2026-44621 - severity: MEDIUM Libunbound applications configured with 'unwanted-reply-threshold' could eventually be abruptly terminated o CVE-2026-50045 - severity: MEDIUM 'max-global-quota' reset by DNSSEC validation restarts o CVE-2026-50046 - severity: MEDIUM Possible heap use-after-free in an error path when a DoT forwarded query is jostled out o CVE-2026-50243 - severity: MEDIUM response-ip/rpz can rewrite BOGUS answers instead of returning SERVFAIL o CVE-2026-50248 - severity: MEDIUM BOGUS configured primary hostname accepted for XFR in auth/rpz zones o CVE-2026-50251 - severity: MEDIUM Attacker supplied 0.0.0.0/:: glue triggers defensive full-cache flush o CVE-2026-50252 - severity: MEDIUM Possible cache poisoning attack by mapping source port population per thread o CVE-2026-52863 - severity: MEDIUM Memory corruption could lead to crash and denial of service o CVE-2026-55717 - severity: MEDIUM 'serve-expired-client-timeout' and 'response-ip' CNAME redirect could lead to a crash o CVE-2026-55990 - severity: MEDIUM Packet of death for a DNSCrypt misconfigured Unbound o CVE-2026-55991 - severity: MEDIUM Remote DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) flow-control assertion failure in libngtcp2 o CVE-2026-56416 - severity: MEDIUM Possible heap buffer overflow when validator canonicalizes RDATA that contains domain name o CVE-2026-56444 - severity: MEDIUM Degradation of resolution service when 'discard-timeout' and 'serve-expired-client-timeout' are combined in unusual configuration o CVE-2026-41637 - severity: LOW Degradation of resolution service from improperly accounted client-terminated DNS-over-QUIC queries o CVE-2026-42955 - severity: LOW Extra fix for CVE-2026-40622 to also clamp the TTL of A/AAAA records disallowing a one-time 'ghost domain' delegation renewal via glue records o CVE-2026-44687 - severity: LOW Off-by-one error in 'harden-below-nxdomain' logic can shadow a stub/forward zone by a legitimate parent's NXDOMAIN o CVE-2026-46582 - severity: LOW A wildcard replay, as another piece of data, triggers poisoning in the serve expired reply path o CVE-2026-54478 - severity: LOW DNS Cookie bypass when combined with proxy-protocol use o CVE-2026-55708 - severity: LOW Privacy/configuration issue when adding local data in views through 'unbound-control' . Other notable user-visible changes and fixes. For complete list, please see /usr/share/doc/unbound/changelog.gz . o ICANN Bundle Update: Refreshed icannbundle.pem certificates in unbound-anchor to include public keys valid for 2009–2029 and 2025–2045 o Transfer Limits: Added max-transfer-size and max-transfer-time directives to limit authorization zone (auth-zone) and RPZ transfer sizes and times to harden against unbounded transfers. o New Zone Types: Introduced block_aaaa static zone type to suppress AAAA queries, plus block_a_wdata and block_aaaa_wdata to support custom local data fallback. o Management Improvements: Overloaded local_data_remove to allow the removal of precise records. o Fix for the Jiggle Attack. The server is fixed to answer with errors for error cases, and does not stay silent. In addition, the error replies do not contain parts of the incoming query. This is more conformant, stops reflection and stops it as a covert channel. o Fix EDNS extended RCODE reflection. This fixes that the server does not echo extended rcode values after class chaos queries. o Fix for iterator RCODE handling of YXDOMAIN. This fixes that the server only accepts YXDOMAIN answers that contain a DNAME record. This stops bad answers, and checks that the authoritative server gives correct replies. o Fix for missing bounds check for decompressing dnames for downloaded authority zones. This fixes that the server could end up with malformed zone content after receiving truncated packet contents from an AXFR. In addition, the domain names in the SOA rdata are checked before the authority code picks up the zone serial. o Fix that upstream TLS connections are not reused as TLS connections for a different name, at the same IP. This checks that the tls name is correct when reusing the upstream connections. o Fix that signatures are not allowed with revoked dnskeys. o Fix that a DNAME with an unsigned CNAME is checked for the correct match. This stops that for certain zone configurations an unchecked unsigned CNAME could get secure status. o Fix handling of wildcard CNAMEs in the chain of trust. An improper wildcard in the chain of trust would send the retries to the wrong upstream. Also it could label the step in the chain of trust as secure, when it was not. o Introduce new 'tls-protocols' configuration option that specifies which of the supported TLS protocols will be used. o Fix RFC7766 compliance when client sends EOF over TCP. It stops pending replies and closes. o Fix to shorten RRSIG count in scrubber, this protects against an overly large number of RRSIGs. It can be configured with `iter-scrub-rrsig: 8`, it has default 8. o Fix for EDNS client subnet so that it does not store SERVFAIL in the global cache after a failed lookup, such as timeouts. A failure entry is stored in the subnet cache, for the query name, for a couple of seconds. Queries can continue to use the subnet cache during that time. o Fix to allow the control-interface config to use ip@port notation. o Fix to check for invalid http content length and chunk size, and to check the RR rdata field lengths when decompressing and inserting RRs from an authority zone transfer. This stops large memory use and heap buffer-overflow read errors. o Fix to ignore out-of-zone DNAME records for CNAME synthesis. Fix so that a reload checks if the files have changed, and if so, reload the contexts. Also for DoH, DoQ and outgoing DoT. o Apply cache TTL policy to DNAME and synthesized CNAME on wire path. o Fix for DNS Rebinding Bypass via SVCB/HTTPS Records in Unbound. o Allow synthesized DNAME TTL=0 to be served from cache within grace period. The responses are served from cache within a 1-second grace period. Reduces recursion when authoritative servers return DNAME with TTL=0 (RFC 2308). Response still returns TTL=0 to clients. o On Linux systems log the system-wide unique thread ID instead of Unbound's internal thread counter. o Introduce the 'log-thread-id' configuration option to manage logging the system-wide Linux thread ID for easier debugging with system tools. o Mesh reply counters. This adds statistics num.queries.replyaddr_limit and requestlist.current.replies. o Add extra statistic to track the number of signature validation operations. Adds 'num.valops' to extended statistics. o Fix for cname chain length with qtype ANY and qname minimisation. o Change default for so-sndbuf to 4m, to mitigate a cross-layer issue where the UDP socket send buffers are exhausted waiting for ARP/NDP resolution. o Increase default to `num-queries-per-thread: 2048`, when unbound is compiled with libevent. It makes saturation of the task queue more resource intensive and less practical. o DNS Error Reporting (RFC 9567). Introduces new configuration option 'dns-error-reporting' and new statistics for 'num.dns_error_reports'. o Redis read-only replica support. Introduces new 'redis-replica-*' options for the Redis cache backend. o Exempt loopback addresses from wait-limit. o Fix wait-limit-netblock and wait-limit-cookie-netblock config parse to allow two arguments. o Fast Reload. The unbound-control fast_reload is added. It reads changed config in a thread, then only briefly pauses the service threads, that keep running. DNS service is only interrupted briefly. o Make the default value of module-config "validator iterator" regardless of compilation options. --enable-subnet would implicitly change the value to enable the subnetcache module by default in the past. o Add unbound members group access to control key. o Add resolver.arpa and service.arpa to the default locally served zones. o Use TCP_NODELAY on TLS sockets to speed up the TLS handshake. o Serve expired cache update fixes. Fixes a regression bug with serve-expired that appeared in 1.22.0 and would not allow the iterator to update the cache with not-yet-validated entries resulting in increased outgoing traffic. Closes: #1142539 o The default value of serve-expired-ttl is set to 86400 (1 day) as suggested by RFC8767. o Increase the default of max-global-quota to 200 from 128 after operational feedback. Still keeping the possible amplification factor (CAMP related issues) in the hundreds. o Fix for the serve expired DNSSEC information fix, it would not allow current delegation information be updated in cache. The fix allows current delegation and validation recursion information to be updated, but as a consequence no longer has certain expired information around for later dnssec valid expired responses. o Statistics for discard-timeout and wait-limit. . * Other packaging changes: - d/rules,d/libunbound-dev.install: drop static library and deps (Closes: #1096189) - unbound-helper: do not update resolvconf if it is systemd-resolved - d/unbound.service: set empty DAEMON_OPTS= to avoid warning from systemd - d/upstream/signing-key.asc: update with the new upstream key - d/unbound.conf.d/remote-control.conf: fix typo Checksums-Sha1: 6318f69bbf1a4c21f7acd31438b97c7989361e67 3201 unbound_1.26.1-0+deb13u1.dsc e4554010d4349038c7de117779b65a4d8b35a663 6948585 unbound_1.26.1.orig.tar.gz daabbe2a34dfe39a1e0b86cd3a6671e3da37c4e3 659 unbound_1.26.1.orig.tar.gz.asc 68bbbcab56f0f9f084a4d1ca265b815da35b779c 32356 unbound_1.26.1-0+deb13u1.debian.tar.xz a33e2fbc1f3cad0732fbe7cd6fa16077e59ba1eb 5867 unbound_1.26.1-0+deb13u1_source.buildinfo Checksums-Sha256: 5cfa6c981408a173490f851011f7151828a6626679ef78b1e4767ec55290e5dc 3201 unbound_1.26.1-0+deb13u1.dsc 35a6dc0e425a9282c3426d9a3043144011bf0534aed4b73ab62c52aee0af1503 6948585 unbound_1.26.1.orig.tar.gz c52227c2a6918f991443c72709313fcd8530c41ea61268dbe820278a1c60a996 659 unbound_1.26.1.orig.tar.gz.asc 22430ce4c5ab232b9530b1f7a0a21126a4ae745dfea7860c8a6b39c6851a86e4 32356 unbound_1.26.1-0+deb13u1.debian.tar.xz dcb33a24d6d2c272801c8948872a7fd5ff9197dddd7cc4be2c6c6df50b0671e3 5867 unbound_1.26.1-0+deb13u1_source.buildinfo Files: 8f35b0dc5a8b6324840954046b376a65 3201 net optional unbound_1.26.1-0+deb13u1.dsc 249968d910bcf13232fbecef8db17124 6948585 net optional unbound_1.26.1.orig.tar.gz 8d8aa9bfcadded4e7d2ac0e8c67be654 659 net optional unbound_1.26.1.orig.tar.gz.asc e36ec6e3be1f2e40ff2a4d5bbb4ea34b 32356 net optional unbound_1.26.1-0+deb13u1.debian.tar.xz 86e78ca6d78d79997e5b8243756024bb 5867 net optional unbound_1.26.1-0+deb13u1_source.buildinfo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEZKoqtTHVaQM2a/75gqpKJDselHgFAmqtYY0ACgkQgqpKJDse lHiZCg/+JnFyX2TVhxll4OL7dxKmVklzR95k+UYSSKUvOWbvHi4ERLV/s96Oxacv jgD4l7SZBdSM0Q1pZHDuJq8lc6h/r2BpToA5B4qyO3vAEQiEK8b8TJGnvqiBqr89 LX5ddPldKtdVP1gKm+lXohx5gcpfp7Xz0lCW2lF1zVoX/wIzJqmt5+FPFTkYaH0l RYlevTcyVukXOvFZa1C4nmuaUUELChy07RnntNlg04kLIifqCZU/3KwiUAi0rabo 96orSMcJzKyX290NhnujWO2LGLqe55YrSrYIg+rYEtFaa9tSlyEb1riwbz8+vzFl xncuPYPskmNS/ZP67ZXUHqsillwWzdBJry2qXJ+Nia0TSR9N3mMnmfiqLLCWr+6O /6nyHD6uIm6/TupUwkhY+0vuxde4XEZiDbQu8pv3+Z4okklDJHNu6I419PV3C8qF mCY5WuxrYbzv35zuOrxx1FQuc83E3ekxDpw8llJSMdia7lS/Mb9qbS5Mvp+Hgwgc mSGTtsjNe4kDKNkuu0sKobIZVURpjqKkSHD+L+UOMW+SLqKhz/7IDwwAGwdc9G+3 xrajVqrfhoqPiexB6qh4DwlDMBzDxymaG3RI9AUSemuATrkqRgnS38meSQw3hqhB CI5H+gFZxWDWxjBDDWXJcc9XfbAHTxeCxzS2DUQG+Dxvju4j9aA= =GeVk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----