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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.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2026:67908 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67908
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Via RHSA-2026:67909 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67909
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2026:67910 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67910
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 Via RHSA-2026:89197 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89197