CVE-2026-63387 PUBLISHED

Libevent: Off-by-one stack buffer overflow in dnsname_to_labels via crafted DNS server response

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 16.07.2026 Published: 20.08.2026 Updated: 20.08.2026

Libevent is an event notification library. Prior to 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha, libevent has an off-by-one stack buffer overflow in evdns.c when dnsname_to_labels formats a name-bearing DNS record at the end of the 64 KB stack buffer allocated by evdns_server_request_format_response. The final-label check permits j plus label_len plus one to equal buf_len, after which the terminating null byte is written to buf[buf_len]. A crafted DNS server response containing PTR, CNAME, MX, NS, or SOA data can trigger the one-byte out-of-bounds write and crash or corrupt the process. This issue is fixed in versions 2.1.13 and 2.2.2-alpha.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS Score: 7

Product Status

Vendor libevent
Product libevent
Versions
  • Version >= 2.2.0-alpha, < 2.2.2-alpha is affected
  • Version < 2.1.13 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE
  • CWE-193: Off-by-one Error CWE
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write CWE