CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9430
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/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-119
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in dnstracer through 1.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a command line with a long name argument that is mishandled in a strcpy call for argv[0]. An example threat model is a web application that launches dnstracer with an untrusted name string.
Affected configurations
• dnstracer project dnstracer (<= 1.9)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017060030 Third Party Advisory
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142799/DNSTracer-1.8.1-Buffer-Overflow.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42115/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42424/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017060030 Third Party Advisory
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142799/DNSTracer-1.8.1-Buffer-Overflow.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42115/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42424/ www.exploit-db.com