miekg/dns parsing error leads to nil pointer dereference and DoS

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-17419 · GHSA-9jcx-pr2f-qvq5 · GO-2020-0028 · Published 07/03/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-17419 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting github.com/miekg/dns, dns library (dns library project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.0.10 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
github.com/miekg/dns Go	`< 1.0.10`	`1.0.10`
dns library dns_library_project	`< 1.0.10`	`1.0.10`

Description

An issue was discovered in setTA in scan_rr.go in the Miek Gieben DNS library before 1.0.10 for Go. A dns.ParseZone() parsing error causes a segmentation violation, leading to denial of service.

NVD description

An issue was discovered in setTA in scan_rr.go in the Miek Gieben DNS library before 1.0.10 for Go. A dns.ParseZone() parsing error causes a segmentation violation, leading to denial of service.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17419 · ADVISORY
miekg/dns · WEB
miekg/dns#745 · WEB
miekg/dns commit 501e858 · WEB
miekg/dns · PACKAGE
pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2020-0028 · WEB

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

github.com/miekg/dns

< 1.0.10

1.0.10

dns library

dns_library_project

< 1.0.10

1.0.10

Description

NVD description

An issue was discovered in setTA in scan_rr.go in the Miek Gieben DNS library before 1.0.10 for Go. A dns.ParseZone() parsing error causes a segmentation violation, leading to denial of service.

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