Source: mtr Version: 0.96-1 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for mtr. CVE-2026-14461[0]: | mtr is vulnerable to Out-of-bound read vulnerability in | ipinfo_lookup() function. An attacker who can influence the TXT | response used for AS lookups can trigger this bug by returning a DNS | response that is larger than 512 bytes and uses a crafted | compression pointer in the answer NAME field. ipinfo_lookup() | function uses the length of the response as the end-of-message | boundary for dn_expand() function. The result is a reliable crash. | This issue exists in the mtr through version 0.96 and it was fixed | in commit 48e1794414d338ce47abc0f27c25ade8788af9c3. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-14461 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-14461 [1] https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/commit/48e1794414d338ce47abc0f27c25ade8788af9c3 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
