CVE-2017-9103

CWE-119Buffer Overflow7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
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

NVDgnu/adns< 1.5.2
Debianadns< 1.6.0-2+3
NVDopensuse/leap15.1

Also affects: Fedora 31, 32

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-q936-xr3r-7gqr: An issue was discovered in adns before 12022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2017-9103: An issue was discovered in adns before 12020-06-18
CVEList
CVE-2017-9103: An issue was discovered in adns before 12020-06-18

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-9103: adns - An issue was discovered in adns before 1.5.2. pap_mailbox822 does not properly c...2017

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9103 adns: pap_mailbox822 does not properly check st from adns__findlabel_next [fedora-all]2020-06-22
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9103 adns: pap_mailbox822 does not properly check st from adns__findlabel_next2020-06-22