GHSA-hfpq-x728-986j

netavark has incorrect error handling for malformed tcp packets

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-35406

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
crates.io	netavark	>= 1.16.0, < 1.17.1	1.17.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Impact A truncated TCP DNS query followed by a connection reset causes aardvark-dns to enter an unrecoverable infinite error loop at 100% CPU. ### Patches https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/commit/3b49ea7b38bdea134b7f03256f2e13f44ce73bb1 ### Workarounds None ### Credits Thanks to @dkane01 for reporting this

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/security/advisories/GHSA-hfpq-x728-986j web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35406 advisory
https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/commit/3b49ea7b38bdea134b7f03256f2e13f44ce73bb1 web
https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns package
https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/releases/tag/v1.17.1 web