Topic

Memory Safety Bugs

Defects in which a program reads or writes outside intended bounds, including heap and stack overflows and heap corruption, common in software written in C and C++.

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A crafted DNSKEY overflows the heap in every Unbound release before 1.26.1

NLnet Labs shipped Unbound 1.26.1 on Wednesday with nine CVEs fixed, among them a DNSSEC validator overflow an attacker reaches with one query into a zone he controls. Debian's stable branches are still waiting.

Publishers:thehackernews.com

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