CVE-2014-3484

CRITICAL

musl 0.9.13-1.0.3 - Stack-Based Buffer Overflow in DNS Response Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the __dn_expand function in network/dn_expand.c in musl libc 1.1x before 1.1.2 and 0.9.13 through 1.0.3 allow remote attackers to (1) have unspecified impact via an invalid name length in a DNS response or (2) cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid name length in a DNS response, related to an infinite loop with no output.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/495

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0220
EPSS Percentile 80.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
musl-libc/musl 0.9.13 - 1.0.3
Published Feb 20, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026