CVE-2017-9105 is a pointer corruption vulnerability in adns versions prior to 1.5.2, affecting products like Fedora and GNU adns. This flaw occurs when a nameserver initiates communication due to an incorrect number of pointer dereferences. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), it presents a significant risk of remote code execution, requiring low privileges and network access for exploitation. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or community discussion, suggesting a low current threat landscape.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:adns:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
32CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.