Out-of-Bounds Affecting dnstracer package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
Snyk has a published code exploit for this vulnerability.
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-DNSTRACER-5674325
- published5 Jun 2017
- disclosed5 Jun 2017
Introduced: 5 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-9430 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:13 dnstracer.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dnstracer package and not the dnstracer package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9430
- 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/42424