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