ALPINE-CVE-2026-44621

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-44621
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-44621.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2026-44621
Upstream
Published
2026-07-22T14:17:18Z
Modified
2026-09-14T16:18:08Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

With NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.1, applications using libunbound and configured with 'unwanted-reply-threshold', could eventually be abruptly terminated if the threshold is reached and libunbound needs to call 'libworker_alloc_cleanup' since the function is absent from the function call allow list. When an application using libunbound sets 'unwanted-reply-threshold' to any non-zero value and the iterator queries an authoritative that replies with enough wrong-transaction-ID UDP datagrams to cross the threshold, the 'libworker_alloc_cleanup' will eventually be called. Since the function is absent from the function call allow list, this leads to a fatal exit of libunbound and eventual termination of the embedding application.Unbound itself is not affected since its relevant function 'worker_alloc_cleanup' is registed in the allow list and proceeds to perform the documented cache flush.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.24 / unbound

Package

Name
unbound
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/unbound?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.25.2-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-44621.json"