CVE-2026-5172EPSS p51.0%

CVE-2026-5172CVE-2026-5172

Description

A buffer overflow in dnsmasq’s extract_addresses() function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extract_name() to advance the pointer past the record’s end.

Scoring

CVSS 7.3 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS0.69% probability of exploitation · percentile 51.0% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-08-24
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