CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.3. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.
Public Exploit Signal
A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.
Detected Signals
exploit
GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2026-5172
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.3
EPSS
2.68%
Original NVD Description
A buffer overflow in dnsmasq’s extract_addresses() function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extract_name() to advance the pointer past the record’s end.