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CVE-2026-5172

HIGH CVSS: 7.3 Published: 2026-05-11 Modified: 2026-07-15

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-125

References