Vulnerability CVE-2017-12130
Published: 2018-01-19   Modified: 2018-01-20

Description:
An exploitable NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the tinysvcmdns library version 2017-11-05. A specially crafted packet can make the library dereference a NULL pointer leading to a server crash and denial of service. An attacker needs to send a DNS query to trigger this vulnerability.

Type:

CWE-476

 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Tinysvcmdns project -> Tinysvcmdns 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102795
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0486
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