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GHSA-57VP-FFX7-7GM6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-11 18:31 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:31

Details

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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  "modified": "2026-05-11T21:31:33Z",
  "published": "2026-05-11T18:31:47Z",
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      "type": "WEB",
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CVE-2026-5172 (GCVE-0-2026-5172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-11 16:48 – Updated: 2026-05-13 12:48

Title

CVE-2026-5172

Summary

Severity ?

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

certcc

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/471747
https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq…
https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CVE/
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/519082
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/519093
https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/releases/tag/v6.6.2

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
dnsmasq	dnsmasq	Affected: 2.92rel2

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-57VP-FFX7-7GM6

CVE-2026-5172 (GCVE-0-2026-5172)

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