DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63387
- Source
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-63387
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63387.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63387
- Upstream
- Published
- 2026-08-20T18:16:36Z
- Modified
- 2026-09-18T16:00:07Z
- Severity
-
- 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has an off-by-one stack buffer overflow in evdns.c when dnsname_to_labels formats a name-bearing DNS record at the end of the 64 KB stack buffer allocated by evdns_server_request_format_response. The final-label check permits j plus label_len plus one to equal buf_len, after which the terminating null byte is written to buf[buf_len]. A crafted DNS server response containing PTR, CNAME, MX, NS, or SOA data can trigger the one-byte out-of-bounds write and crash or corrupt the process. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha.
- References
Affected packages
Debian:12 / libevent
Package
- Name
- libevent
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libevent?arch=source&distro=bookworm
Debian:13 / libevent
Package
- Name
- libevent
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libevent?arch=source&distro=trixie
Debian:14 / libevent
Package
- Name
- libevent
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libevent?arch=source&distro=forky