HIGHCVE-2026-5172Published Modified CNA certcc
CVE-2026-5172: CVE-2026-5172
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.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.3
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 2.92rel2
- Affected Products
- 1
Fix available
2.92rel2
Affected packages
- dnsmasq / dnsmasq< 2.92rel2 (from 0)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L