new file mode 100644
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+From f7511787affcc7f1716f76dcc924c3880fc1f88a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "W.C.A. Wijngaards" <wouter@nlnetlabs.nl>
+Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:18:16 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] - Fix CVE-2026-55973, 'dns-error-reporting: yes' leads to
+ stack buffer overflow. Thanks to Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks, for the
+ report.
+
+(cherry picked from commit 96f875552023c0ccf376ebe050519f12f3371dc9)
+
+CVE: CVE-2026-55973
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/commit/96f875552023c0ccf376ebe050519f12f3371dc9]
+
+Signed-off-by: Ankur Tyagi <ankur.tyagi85@gmail.com>
+---
+ services/cache/dns.c | 2 ++
+ services/mesh.c | 4 ++--
+ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/services/cache/dns.c b/services/cache/dns.c
+index 121870ee3..cb241c6f9 100644
+--- a/services/cache/dns.c
++++ b/services/cache/dns.c
+@@ -259,6 +259,8 @@ find_closest_of_type(struct module_env* env, uint8_t* qname, size_t qnamelen,
+
+ /* snip off front label */
+ lablen = *qname;
++ if(lablen == 0)
++ break;
+ qname += lablen + 1;
+ qnamelen -= lablen + 1;
+ }
+diff --git a/services/mesh.c b/services/mesh.c
+index 191b1d488..432063c0d 100644
+--- a/services/mesh.c
++++ b/services/mesh.c
+@@ -1620,9 +1620,9 @@ static void dns_error_reporting(struct module_qstate* qstate,
+ opt = edns_opt_list_find(qstate->edns_opts_back_in,
+ LDNS_EDNS_REPORT_CHANNEL);
+ if(!opt) return;
+- agent_domain_len = opt->opt_len;
+ agent_domain = opt->opt_data;
+- if(dname_valid(agent_domain, agent_domain_len) < 3) {
++ agent_domain_len = dname_valid(agent_domain, opt->opt_len);
++ if(agent_domain_len < 3) {
+ /* The agent domain needs to be a valid dname that is not the
+ * root; from RFC9567. */
+ return;
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound.git;protocol=https;branch=master;t
file://CVE-2026-54478.patch \
file://CVE-2026-55708.patch \
file://CVE-2026-55717.patch \
+ file://CVE-2026-55973.patch \
"
SRCREV = "f6269baa605d31859f28770e01a24e3677e5f82c"