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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-17419

A dns.ParseZone() parsing error causes a segmentation violation, leading to denial of service.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.76%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.76%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in setTA in scan_rr.go in the Miek Gieben DNS library before 1.0.10 for Go. A dns.ParseZone() parsing error causes a segmentation violation, leading to denial of service.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.76% probability · 77th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-476
Affected
dns library project/dns library
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.