>From the upstream announcement:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/19/5
Felix Wilhelm has discovered a flaw in the dns response parsing for
musl libc 1.1.16 that leads to overflow of a stack-based buffer.
Earlier versions are also affected.
When an application makes a request via getaddrinfo for both IPv4 and
IPv6 results (AF_UNSPEC), an attacker who controls or can spoof the
nameservers configured in resolv.conf can reply to both the A and AAAA
queries with A results. Since A records are smaller than AAAA records,
it's possible to fit more addresses than the precomputed bound, and a
buffer overflow occurs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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