Out-of-bounds Memory Write Affecting pycares package, versions [,2.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.62% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYCARES-40400
  • published22 Sept 2016
  • disclosed22 Sept 2016
  • creditGzob Qq

Introduced: 22 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-5180  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

pycares is a Python interface for c-ares.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ares_create_query function in c-ares 1.x before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with an escaped trailing dot.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1