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

GitHub Advisories · officialPublished Oct 5, 2026Risk 37/100

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

Upgrade affected packages to a patched version: hickory-resolver 0.26.2.

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Product
hickory-resolver
Exploitation
none known
Evidence
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