UBUNTU-CVE-2026-82717

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-82717
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-82717.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-82717
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-82717
Published
2026-09-17T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-09-17T13:30:15Z
Severity
  • 8.4 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:U CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

In NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including 1.26.0, a vulnerability was found in that can progressively corrupt heap memory and under certain systems and compilation options could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability starts when CNAME synthesis during an upstream response needs to enforce(rewrite) a max TTL value in the packet buffer. Coupled with a compression pointer that points to the overwritten value and invalidates the domain name, it leads to an error path that does not properly move the buffer position and allows for the heap buffer overflow. Since this is heavily reliant on heap memory layout, results are memory corruption that eventually leads to a crash and under specific systems and compilation options remote code execution.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
unbound

Package

Name
unbound
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/unbound?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.13.1-1ubuntu1
1.13.1-1ubuntu3
1.13.1-1ubuntu5
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.1
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.2
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.3
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.4
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.5
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.7
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.8
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.10
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.11
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.12
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.13
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.14
1.13.1-1ubuntu5.15

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libunbound8",
            "binary_version": "1.13.1-1ubuntu5.15"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.13.1-1ubuntu5.15"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.13.1-1ubuntu5.15"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-anchor",
            "binary_version": "1.13.1-1ubuntu5.15"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-host",
            "binary_version": "1.13.1-1ubuntu5.15"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-82717.json"
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
unbound

Package

Name
unbound
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/unbound?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.17.1-2
1.18.0-2ubuntu1
1.18.0-2ubuntu2
1.19.1-1ubuntu1
1.19.2-1ubuntu1
1.19.2-1ubuntu3
1.19.2-1ubuntu3.1
1.19.2-1ubuntu3.2
1.19.2-1ubuntu3.3
1.19.2-1ubuntu3.4
1.19.2-1ubuntu3.5
1.19.2-1ubuntu3.6
1.19.2-1ubuntu3.7
1.19.2-1ubuntu3.8
1.19.2-1ubuntu3.9

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libunbound8",
            "binary_version": "1.19.2-1ubuntu3.9"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.19.2-1ubuntu3.9"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.19.2-1ubuntu3.9"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-anchor",
            "binary_version": "1.19.2-1ubuntu3.9"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-host",
            "binary_version": "1.19.2-1ubuntu3.9"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-82717.json"
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
unbound

Package

Name
unbound
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/unbound?arch=source&distro=resolute

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.22.0-2ubuntu2
1.22.0-2ubuntu4
1.24.2-1ubuntu1
1.24.2-1ubuntu2
1.24.2-1ubuntu2.1
1.24.2-1ubuntu2.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libunbound8",
            "binary_version": "1.24.2-1ubuntu2.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.24.2-1ubuntu2.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.24.2-1ubuntu2.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-anchor",
            "binary_version": "1.24.2-1ubuntu2.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-host",
            "binary_version": "1.24.2-1ubuntu2.2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-82717.json"
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
unbound

Package

Name
unbound
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/unbound?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.4.20-1
1.4.21-1
1.4.21-1ubuntu1
1.4.21-1ubuntu2
1.4.22-1ubuntu1
1.4.22-1ubuntu2
1.4.22-1ubuntu3
1.4.22-1ubuntu4
1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.1
1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.2
1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3
1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm1
1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm2
1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libunbound2",
            "binary_version": "1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python-unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-anchor",
            "binary_version": "1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-host",
            "binary_version": "1.4.22-1ubuntu4.14.04.3+esm3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-82717.json"
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS
unbound

Package

Name
unbound
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/unbound?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Fxenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.4.22-1ubuntu6
1.5.7-1ubuntu1
1.5.7-1ubuntu2
1.5.8-1ubuntu1
1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1
1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm1
1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm2
1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libunbound2",
            "binary_version": "1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python-unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-anchor",
            "binary_version": "1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-host",
            "binary_version": "1.5.8-1ubuntu1.1+esm3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-82717.json"
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
unbound

Package

Name
unbound
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/unbound?arch=source&distro=esm-infra%2Fbionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.6.5-1
1.6.7-1
1.6.7-1build1
1.6.7-1ubuntu1
1.6.7-1ubuntu2
1.6.7-1ubuntu2.1
1.6.7-1ubuntu2.2
1.6.7-1ubuntu2.3
1.6.7-1ubuntu2.4
1.6.7-1ubuntu2.5
1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6
1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm2
1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm3
1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libunbound2",
            "binary_version": "1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python-unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-anchor",
            "binary_version": "1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-host",
            "binary_version": "1.6.7-1ubuntu2.6+esm4"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-82717.json"
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
unbound

Package

Name
unbound
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/unbound?arch=source&distro=esm-infra%2Ffocal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.9.0-2ubuntu1
1.9.0-2ubuntu2
1.9.4-2
1.9.4-2ubuntu1
1.9.4-2ubuntu1.1
1.9.4-2ubuntu1.2
1.9.4-2ubuntu1.3
1.9.4-2ubuntu1.4
1.9.4-2ubuntu1.5
1.9.4-2ubuntu1.6
1.9.4-2ubuntu1.8
1.9.4-2ubuntu1.9
1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11
1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libunbound8",
            "binary_version": "1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python-unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound",
            "binary_version": "1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-anchor",
            "binary_version": "1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "unbound-host",
            "binary_version": "1.9.4-2ubuntu1.11+esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-82717.json"