What Stack-based buffer overflow in dnstracer through 1.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a command line with a long name argument that is mishandled in a strcpy call for argv[0]. An example threat model is a web application that launches dnstracer with an untrusted name string.
attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly hav e unspecified other impact via a command line with a long name argument tha t is mishandled in a strcpy call for argv[0]. An example threat model is a web application that launches dnstracer with an untrusted name string
Terminal:> dnstracer -v $(python -c 'print "A"*1025')
