CVE-2026-6238

A flaw was found in glibc GNU C Library. The deprecated functions nsprintrrf, nsprintrr, and fpnquery do not properly validate the length of RDATA Resource Record Data in a DNS Domain Name System response when processing specific record types like LOC, CERT, TKEY, or TSIG. A remote attacker could...

CVE-2026-6238 Buffer overread in ns_printrrf with corrupted RDATA field

The deprecated functions nsprintrrf, nsprintrr and fpnquery in the GNU C Library version 2.0.1 to version 2.43 fail to validate the RDATA content against the RDATA length in a DNS response when processing A6, CERT, LOC, TKEY or TSIG records, which may allow an attacker to craft a DNS response,...