CVE-2017-2909

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2909

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2909.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-2909

Downstream

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2909

Published

2017-11-07T16:29:00.903Z

Modified

2025-11-14T05:10:48.564647Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

An infinite loop programming error exists in the DNS server functionality of Cesanta Mongoose 6.8 library. A specially crafted DNS request can cause an infinite loop resulting in high CPU usage and Denial Of Service. An attacker can send a packet over the network to trigger this vulnerability.

References

https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0416

Affected packages

Git / github.com/cesanta/mongoose

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Last affected

acfc66cd60f5bfa7dc4d37194d72855c201e5710

Affected versions

3.*

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.5

3.6

3.7

3.8

4.*

4.0

4.1

5.*

5.0

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.4

5.5

5.5_20140120

5.6

6.*

6.0

6.1

6.2

6.3

6.4

6.5

6.6

6.7

6.8

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2909.json"