7.8 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Libdns.so is vulnerable to denial of service attack. The library does not use correct regular expression validation, allowing the attack to inject a malicious DNS query causing an excessive amount of memory, or application crash.
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marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136804614120794&w=2
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