Vulnerability CVE-2017-9430


Published: 2017-06-05

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
DNSTracer Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Hosein Askari
05.06.2017

Type:

CWE-119

(Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Dnstracer project -> Dnstracer 

 References:
https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017060030
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142799/DNSTracer-1.8.1-Buffer-Overflow.html
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42115/

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