ALPINE-CVE-2026-52863

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-52863
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-52863.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2026-52863
Upstream
Published
2026-07-22T14:17:20.757Z
Modified
2026-07-28T23:30:07.550885355Z
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

In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.25.0 up to and including 1.25.1, a fix that makes the 'respip' and 'dns64' modules work together, creates a shallow copy of the view name in effect that could lead to memory corruption if the owner of the original view name is jostled out when Unbound is under pressure. Unbound needs to be configured with one of 'respip'/'rpz' modules, together with a module that can attach subqueries (respip CNAME redirection, dns64, subnetcache) and a configured 'access-control-view' while Unbound is under pressure so that joslte logic kicks in and starts dropping slow queries. The subquery is getting a shallow copy of the view name and if the super query which owns the view name is jostled out, memory corruption can occur. Likelihood of a crash is low, since it relies heavily on the underlying memory allocator and the memory layout. Debug memory builds (e.g., ASAN) that catch the free terminate the server.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.24 / unbound

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
1.25.0
Fixed
1.25.2-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-52863.json"