ALPINE-CVE-2026-5172

A buffer overflow in dnsmasq’s extractaddresses function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extractname to advance the pointer past the record’s end...

CVE-2026-5172

A buffer overflow in dnsmasq’s extractaddresses function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extractname to advance the pointer past the record’s end...

dnsmasq -- multiple vulnerabilities

Simon Kelley reports: Today, 11th May 2026 CERT is releasing a set of six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq. These are all long-standing bugs which apply to pretty much all non-ancient versions. Christopher Cullen and Molly Jaconski write, in Vulnerability Note VU471747:...

BIT-GOLANG-2024-24788 Malformed DNS message can cause infinite loop in net

A malformed DNS message in response to a query can cause the Lookup functions to get stuck in an infinite loop...

AZL-40517 CVE-2024-24788 affecting package golang for versions less than 1.22.3

A malformed DNS message in response to a query can cause the Lookup functions to get stuck in an infinite loop...

CVE-2000-0405

Buffer overflow in L0pht AntiSniff allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed DNS response packet...