It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain DNS messages with repeated singleton records such as SOA, CNAME, or DNAME records. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to use excessive memory, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.10.
USN-8969-1: Bind vulnerabilities
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