CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-3484

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2020-02-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-02-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the __dn_expand function in network/dn_expand.c in musl libc 1.1x before 1.1.2 and 0.9.13 through 1.0.3 allow remote attackers to (1) have unspecified impact via an invalid name length in a DNS response or (2) cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid name length in a DNS response, related to an infinite loop with no output.

Affected configurations

• musl-libc musl (>= 0.9.13 <= 1.0.3) • musl-libc musl (>= 1.1.0 < 1.1.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References