hickory-resolver: Unbounded TC-retry loop in `NameServerPool::try_send` (resource-exhaustion DoS)
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub. Impact type from CWE-400.
Summary
When the `hickory-resolver` name server pool implementation receives an upstream response with the TC (truncated) header bit set, it re-queues the request to the same nameserver to retry with UDP transport disabled. However, the retry arm never inspects the transport that just answered and carries no iteration counter. An authoritative server that sets `TC=1` on **every** available transport keeps the resolver spinning on one persistent TCP connection until the 5s per-request wall-clock deadline expires. ### Reporter Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | hickory-resolver (crates.io) | 0.26.0-beta.1 to before 0.26.2 | 0.26.2 | Patch available | GHSA-6w6g-hm98-mhgm |
- hickory-resolver (crates.io) Vendor— Affected 0.26.0-beta.1 to before 0.26.2 Fixed in 0.26.2 Patch available GHSA-6w6g-hm98-mhgm
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-6w6g-hm98-mhgm hickory-resolver (crates.io) Fixed in 0.26.2 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-06 Threatist record created from GHSA-6w6g-hm98-mhgm
References
Other 6
- https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns/security/advisories/GHSA-6w6g-hm98-mhgm
- https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns/pull/3871
- https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns/commit/0848d2e9e4183499343318a690d6dd5e48bc21c1
- https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns/commit/5d37e2e04a36a87013a213b58b820345ef76a263
- https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns
- https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns/releases/tag/v0.26.2
Sources
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