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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-63387

CVE-2026-63387

High
Open
TLP:CLEAR

Libevent: Off-by-one stack buffer overflow in dnsname_to_labels via crafted DNS server response

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Description

Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has an off-by-one stack buffer overflow in evdns.c when dnsname_to_labels formats a name-bearing DNS record at the end of the 64 KB stack buffer allocated by evdns_server_request_format_response. The final-label check permits j plus label_len plus one to equal buf_len, after which the terminating null byte is written to buf[buf_len]. A crafted DNS server response containing PTR, CNAME, MX, NS, or SOA data can trigger the one-byte out-of-bounds write and crash or corrupt the process. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha.

Details

CVSS Score
7.0
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Confidence
90%
Published
Aug 20, 2026
Last Modified
Aug 20, 2026
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