CVE-2017-9103
Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 18
Latest updateMay 24
Description
An issue was discovered in adns before 1.5.2. pap_mailbox822 does not properly check st from adns__findlabel_next. Without this, an uninitialised stack value can be used as the first label length. Depending on the circumstances, an attacker might be able to trick adns into crashing the calling program, leaking aspects of the contents of some of its memory, causing it to allocate lots of memory, or perhaps overrunning a buffer. This is only possible with applications which make non-raw queries fo…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Fedora 31, 32
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2017-9103: adns - An issue was discovered in adns before 1.5.2. pap_mailbox822 does not properly c...↗2017