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CVE-2026-5172
HIGH · CVSS 7.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-05-11T18:16:41.920 · Last modified 2026-06-30T03:21:05.570

Summary

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.

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