CVE-2026-27853 in PowerDNS DNSdist

Summary

An attacker might be able to trigger an out-of-bounds write by sending crafted DNS responses to a DNSdist using the DNSQuestion:changeName or DNSResponse:changeName methods in custom Lua code. In some cases the rewritten packet might become larger than the initial response and even exceed 65535 bytes, potentially leading to a crash resulting in denial of service.

Reservation

02/24/2026

Disclosure

03/31/2026

Entries

VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:

ID	Vulnerability	CWE	Exp	Cou	CVE
354374	PowerDNS DNSdist out-of-bounds write	787	Not defined	Official fix	CVE-2026-27853