CVE-2026-5172

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5172
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-5172.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-5172
Downstream
ALPINE (1)
AZL (1)
BELL (1)
CGA (4)
CLEANSTART (2)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
OESA (3)
openSUSE (2)
RHSA (1)
RLSA (1)
SUSE (6)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
ALSA (1)
openSUSE (2)
SUSE (6)
Published
2026-05-11T16:48:46Z
Modified
2026-10-22T10:31:18Z
Severity
  • 7.3 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
CVE-2026-5172
Details

A buffer overflow in dnsmasq’s extract_addresses() function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extract_name() to advance the pointer past the record’s end.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "certcc",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/5xxx/CVE-2026-5172.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "range": [
                        {
                            "fixed": "2.92rel2"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy": "StandardRange"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/pi-hole/ftl

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/pi-hole/ftl
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
82c58cc45435ddd77875daf368cf64398bc15966
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "original_tag": "v6.6.2",
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "82c58cc45435ddd77875daf368cf64398bc15966"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.0
v1.1
v1.10
v1.10.1
v1.10.2
v1.10.3
v1.11
v1.11.1
v1.2
v1.2.1
v1.3
v1.3.1
v1.4
v1.5
v1.5.1
v1.6
v1.7
v1.8
v1.9
v2.*
v2.0
v2.1
v2.10
v2.11
v2.11.1
v2.12
v2.13
v2.13.1
v2.13.2
v2.2
v2.3
v2.3.1
v2.4
v2.4.1
v2.5
v2.6
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.7
v2.7.1
v2.7.2
v2.7.3
v2.7.4
v2.8
v2.9
v2.9.1
v2.9.2
v2.9.3
v2.9.4
v3.*
v3.0
v4.*
v4.0
v4.1
v4.1.1
v4.1.2
v4.2
v4.2.1
v4.2.2
v4.2.3
v4.3
v4.3.1
v5.*
v5.0
v5.1
v5.10
v5.10.1
v5.10.2
v5.11
v5.12
v5.12.1
v5.13
v5.14
v5.15
v5.16
v5.16.1
v5.16.2
v5.16.3
v5.17
v5.18
v5.18.1
v5.18.2
v5.19
v5.19.1
v5.19.2
v5.2
v5.20
v5.20.1
v5.21
v5.22
v5.23
v5.24
v5.25
v5.25.1
v5.25.2
v5.3
v5.3.1
v5.3.2
v5.3.3
v5.3.4
v5.4
v5.5
v5.5.1
v5.6
v5.7
v5.8
v5.8.1
v5.9
v6.*
v6.0
v6.0.1
v6.0.2
v6.0.3
v6.0.4
v6.1
v6.2
v6.2.1
v6.2.2
v6.2.3
v6.3
v6.3.1
v6.3.2
v6.3.3
v6.4.1
v6.5
v6.6
v6.6.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-5172.json"