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CVE-2025-24294

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CVE-2025-24294

Published: Jul 12, 2025

Modified: Jul 16, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

The attack vector is a potential Denial of Service (DoS). The vulnerability is caused by an insufficient check on the length of a decompressed domain name within a DNS packet. An attacker can craft a malicious DNS packet containing a highly compressed domain name. When the resolv library parses such a packet, the name decompression process consumes a large amount of CPU resources, as the library does not limit the resulting length of the name. This resource consumption can cause the application thread to become unresponsive, resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

VendorProductVersions

Ruby

resolv

affected
0.2 - <= 0.2.2
affected
0.3.0 - <= 0.3.0
affected
0.6 - <= 0.6.1

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