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  systemd resolved dns_packet_new Heap Buffer Overflow

Category: DNS      

In systemd through 233, certain sizes passed to dns_packet_new in systemd-resolved can cause it to allocate a buffer that's too small. A malicious DNS server can exploit this via a response with a specially crafted TCP payload to trick systemd-resolved into allocating a buffer that's too small, and subsequently write arbitrary data beyond the end of it.

References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9445


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