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  - NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to poisoning via promiscuous records     for the authority section. Promiscuous RRSets that complement DNS replies in the authority section can be     used to trick Unbound to cache such records. If an adversary is able to attach such records in a reply     (i.e., spoofed packet, fragmentation attack) he would be able to poison Unbound's cache. A malicious actor     can exploit the possible poisonous effect by injecting RRSets other than NS that are also accompanied by     address records in a reply, for example MX. This could be achieved by trying to spoof a reply packet or     fragmentation attacks. Unbound would then accept the relative address records in the additional section     and cache them if the authority RRSet has enough trust at this point, i.e., in-zone data for the     delegation point. Unbound 1.25.1 contains a patch with a fix that disregards address records from the     additional section if they are not explicitly relevant only to authority NS records, mitigating the     possible poison effect. This is a complement fix to CVE-2025-11411. (CVE-2026-42960)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-42960

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