CVE-2026-48487 Zeroconf: Unvalidated rdlength in record payload readers allows LAN-local cache corruption via crafted mDNS packet

Zeroconf is a pure Python implementation of multicast DNS service discovery. Prior to 0.149.16, readcharacterstring and readstring in src/zeroconf/protocol/incoming.py advanced self.offset by attacker-declared RDLENGTH without checking it against self.datalen, allowing unauthenticated hosts on th...

CVE-2026-48487 Zeroconf: Unvalidated rdlength in record payload readers allows LAN-local cache corruption via crafted mDNS packet

Zeroconf is a pure Python implementation of multicast DNS service discovery. Prior to 0.149.16, readcharacterstring and readstring in src/zeroconf/protocol/incoming.py advanced self.offset by attacker-declared RDLENGTH without checking it against self.datalen, allowing unauthenticated hosts on th...