A buffer overflow in dnsmasq’s extractaddresses() function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extractname() to advance the pointer past the record’s end.
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}
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"cna_assigner": "certcc",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/5xxx/CVE-2026-5172.json"
}