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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2015-7987: Vulnerability in DNS Service

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 25, 2016
Added
May 29, 2017
Modified
Feb 1, 2022

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in mDNSResponder before 625.41.2 allow remote attackers to read or write to out-of-bounds memory locations via vectors involving the (1) GetValueForIPv4Addr, (2) GetValueForMACAddr, (3) rfc3110_import, or (4) CopyNSEC3ResourceRecord function.

Solution

oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-service-network-dns-mdns-0-5-11-0-175-3-11-0-3-0
Title
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