CVE-2008-2469

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 22.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-10-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the SPF_dns_resolv_lookup function in Spf_dns_resolv.c in libspf2 before 1.2.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long DNS TXT record with a modified length field.

Affected products

Libspf2: through 1.2.7; 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.2.1, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+2)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=242254
http://secunia.com/advisories/32396
http://secunia.com/advisories/32450
http://secunia.com/advisories/32496
http://secunia.com/advisories/32720
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200810-03.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4487
http://up2date.astaro.com/2008/11/up2date_7305_released.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1659
http://www.doxpara.com/?p=1263
http://www.doxpara.com/?page_id=1256
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/183657

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