ALT-PU-2020-3523-1
Closed vulnerabilities
Published: 2017-06-05
Modified: 2025-04-20
Modified: 2025-04-20
CVE-2017-9430
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.
Severity: HIGH (7.5)
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Severity: CRITICAL (9.8)
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References:
- https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017060030
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142799/DNSTracer-1.8.1-Buffer-Overflow.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42115/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42424/
- https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017060030
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142799/DNSTracer-1.8.1-Buffer-Overflow.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42115/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42424/