Bug 2520655 (CVE-2026-63387) - CVE-2026-63387 libevent: Libevent: Off-by-one stack buffer overflow leading to denial of service or data corruption
Summary: CVE-2026-63387 libevent: Libevent: Off-by-one stack buffer overflow leading t...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-63387
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-20 18:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-28 03:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-20 18:05:02 UTC
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.


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