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RUSTSEC-2026-0119: CPU exhaustion during message encoding due to O(n²) name compression #114

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Package hickory-proto
Version 0.25.2
URL GHSA-q2qq-hmj6-3wpp
Patched Versions >=0.26.1
Unaffected Versions <0.3.1
Related Advisories CVE-2024-8508

During message encoding, hickory-proto's BinEncoder stores pointers to
labels that are candidates for name compression in a Vec<(usize, Vec<u8>)>.
The name compression logic then searches for matches with a linear scan.

A malicious message with many records can both introduce many candidate labels,
and invoke this linear scan many times. This can amplify CPU exhaustion in DoS
attacks.

This is similar to
CVE-2024-8508.

We recommend all affected users update to hickory-proto 0.26.1 for the fix.

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