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CVE-2026-5172
Published: May 11, 2026
Modified: May 20, 2026
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
dnsmasq | dnsmasq | affected 0 - < 2.92rel2 |
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