Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-23386 - Missing Initialization of Resource vulnerability in Dns-Packet Project Dns-Packet

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
dns-packet-project
CWE-909

Summary

This affects the package dns-packet before 5.2.2. It creates buffers with allocUnsafe and does not always fill them before forming network packets. This can expose internal application memory over unencrypted network when querying crafted invalid domain names.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)