Security Advisory

CVE-2017-15650

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-10-19 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 19:57:27
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

musl libc before 1.1.17 has a buffer overflow via crafted DNS replies because dns_parse_callback in network/lookup_name.c does not restrict the number of addresses, and thus an attacker can provide an unexpected number by sending A records in a reply to an AAAA query.