Security Advisory

CVE-2026-5172

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-05-11 16:48:46
Last updated 2026-07-15 00:46:24
Assigner certcc
CVSS score not scored
State 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.