Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting trapster package, versions [0,1.2.2)
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- published9 Jul 2026
- disclosed8 Jul 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 8 Jul 2026
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-674 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade trapster to version 1.2.2 or higher.
Overview
trapster is a Trapster Daemon
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion through the decode_labels function. An attacker can cause the application to crash and disrupt service by sending specially crafted UDP packets containing malformed DNS compression pointers, which trigger unbounded recursion and exhaust the Python stack.