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CVE-2017-9430

N/A
Published: June 5, 2017 at 11:12 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:28 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorDnstracer

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 11%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (4)

x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017060030
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142799/DNSTracer-1.8.1-Buffer-Overflow.html
Exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42115/
Exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
Source: [email protected]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42424/

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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