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HIGH

c-ares: NAPTR parser out of bounds access

Published Jul 7, 2017

Description

The c-ares function `ares_parse_naptr_reply()`, which is used for parsing NAPTR responses, could be triggered to read memory outside of the given input buffer if the passed in DNS response packet was crafted in a particular way.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

References (8)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jul 7, 2017
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Jul 7, 2017
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jun 20, 2017
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mitre
Published Jul 7, 2017
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2017-1540