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CVE-2026-5172

7.3 highEPSS 2.7%

High (7.3). EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.3 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS
2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-125
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

References

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