CVE-2017-9430 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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/ https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42424/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8