[1/5] Update GLIBC-SA-2026-0012 to mention A6 records
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It turns out there is a missing inner length check in it, too.
Also fix the vulnerable commit. It predates the glibc 2.0 release
because the old stream-based formatting code in resolv/res_debug.c had
the same bug in its LOC handling.
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advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0012 | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Buffer overread in ns_printrrf with corrupted RDATA field
The deprecated functions ns_printrrf, ns_printrr and fp_nquery in the
GNU C Library version 2.2 and newer fail to validate the RDATA content
-against the RDATA length in a DNS response when processing LOC, CERT,
+against the RDATA length in a DNS response when processing A6, CERT, LOC,
TKEY or TSIG records, which may allow an attacker to craft a DNS
response, causing a target application to crash or read uninitialized
memory.
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ interfaces since they may be removed in future versions.
CVE-Id: CVE-2026-6238
Public-Date: 2026-04-11
-Vulnerable-Commit: b43b13ac2544b11f35be301d1589b51a8473e32b (2.2)
+Vulnerable-Commit: ee188d555b8c32ad9704a7440cab400af967292f (1.90)