GHSA-6w6g-hm98-mhgm

hickory-resolver: Unbounded TC-retry loop in `NameServerPool::try_send` (resource-exhaustion DoS)

Published

2026-10-05

Modified

2026-10-05

Sources

github-advisory

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

Affected packages

Remediation: Upgrade to 0.26.2 or later.

References

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6w6g-hm98-mhgm