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CVE-2026-14461 (GCVE-0-2026-14461)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-10 10:38 – Updated: 2026-07-10 13:14 X_Open Source
VLAI
Title
Out-of-bound read in mtr
Summary
mtr is vulnerable to Out-of-bound read vulnerability in ipinfo_lookup() function. An attacker who can influence the TXT response used for AS lookups can trigger this bug by returning a DNS response that is larger than 512 bytes and uses a crafted compression pointer in the answer NAME field. ipinfo_lookup() function uses the length of the response as the end-of-message boundary for dn_expand() function. The result is a reliable crash. This issue exists in the mtr through version 0.96 and it was fixed in commit 48e1794414d338ce47abc0f27c25ade8788af9c3.
Severity
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-10 13:14 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
BitWizard mtr Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.96 (custom)
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Credits
Michał Majchrowicz (AFINE Team) Marcin Wyczechowski (AFINE Team)
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