CVE-2017-9105

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-06-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in adns before 1.5.2. It corrupts a pointer when a nameserver speaks first because of a wrong number of pointer dereferences. This bug may well be exploitable as a remote code execution.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
GNU Adns: before 1.5.2 — fixed in 1.5.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNU Adns 1.5.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=adns.git
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=adns.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=changelog
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TRVHN3GGVNQWAOL3PWC5FLAV7HUESLZR/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UGFZ4SPV6KFQK6ZNUZFB5Y32OYFOM5YJ/
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/adns-announce/2020/000004.html
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=adns.git
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=adns.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=changelog
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TRVHN3GGVNQWAOL3PWC5FLAV7HUESLZR/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UGFZ4SPV6KFQK6ZNUZFB5Y32OYFOM5YJ/
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/adns-announce/2020/000004.html

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