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hickory-proto vulnerable to CPU exhaustion during message encoding due to O(n²) name compression
hickory-proto vulnerable to CPU exhaustion during message encoding due to O(n²) name compression
Affected packages
- hickory-proto
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
- —
- EPSS percentile
- —
EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs.
Sources
- https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns/security/advisories/GHSA-q2qq-hmj6-3wpp
- https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0119.html
Structured record: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-q2qq-hmj6-3wpp
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