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CVE-2014-3484
critical
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the __dn_expand function in network/dn_expand.c in musl libc 1.1x before 1.1.2 and 0.9.13 through 1.0.3 allow remote attackers to (1) have unspecified impact via an invalid name length in a DNS response or (2) cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid name length in a DNS response, related to an infinite loop with no output.
References
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/495
http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=b3d9e0b94ea73c68ef4169ec82c898ce59a4e30a