cve/2016/CVE-2016-5180.md

CVE-2016-5180

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ares_create_query function in c-ares 1.x before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a hostname with an escaped trailing dot.

POC

Reference

• https://c-ares.haxx.se/adv_20160929.html

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/Ajayannan/sample
• https://github.com/Dor1s/libfuzzer-workshop
• https://github.com/GardeniaWhite/fuzzing
• https://github.com/caseres1222/libfuzzer-workshop
• https://github.com/egueler/cupid-artifact-eval
• https://github.com/lukeber4/usn-search