CVE-2026-63387

A flaw was found in Libevent, an event notification library. An off-by-one stack buffer overflow exists in the dnsname_to_labels function when processing a name-bearing DNS record. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted DNS server response, which may lead to a crash or corruption of the process, resulting in a denial of service or potential information disclosure and integrity impact.

This Important vulnerability in the libevent library's DNS parsing component can lead to a denial of service or data corruption due to an off-by-one stack buffer overflow. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw with low attack complexity by providing a specially crafted DNS server response to services utilizing libevent for DNS resolution.

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.