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CVE-2017-12865

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in "dnsproxy.c" in connman 1.34 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted response query string passed to the "name" variable.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Intel Connman: through 1.34

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3956
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100498
• https://01.org/security/intel-oss-10001/intel-oss-10001
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483720
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/connman/connman.git/commit/?id=5c281d182ecdd0a424b64f7698f32467f8f67b71
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-02
• https://www.nri-secure.com/blog/new-iot-vulnerability-connmando
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3956
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100498
• https://01.org/security/intel-oss-10001/intel-oss-10001
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483720
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/connman/connman.git/commit/?id=5c281d182ecdd0a424b64f7698f32467f8f67b71

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