CVE 7.3 HIGH

CVE-2026-5172_CVE-2026-5172

7.3 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Description

A buffer overflow in dnsmasq’s extract_addresses() function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extract_name() to advance the pointer past the record’s end.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-5172
Source certcc
Published May 11, 2026 at 16:48
Modified May 13, 2026 at 12:48

Affected Product

Vendor dnsmasq
Product dnsmasq
Version 2.92rel2
Affected Versions dnsmasq dnsmasq 2.92rel2

References

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