CVE Database · CVE-2016-2224
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
2.80%
Published
Mar 24, 2017
Modified
May 12, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (1)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
The __decode_dotted function in libc/inet/resolv.c in uClibc-ng before 1.0.12 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors involving compressed items in a reply.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (1)
References (10)