CVE-2018-17419: NULL Pointer Dereference

May 18, 2021

An issue was discovered in setTA in scan_rr.go in the Miek Gieben DNS library before 1.0.10 for Go. A dns.ParseZone() parsing error causes a segmentation violation, leading to denial of service.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-9jcx-pr2f-qvq5
github.com/miekg/dns/commit/501e858f679edecd4a38a86317ce50271014a80d
github.com/miekg/dns/issues/742
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17419

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