CVE-2026-30872

OpenWrt Project has a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability via IPv6 reverse DNS lookup

State
Published
Severity
9.5 Critical
Published
Mar 19, 2026
Updated
Mar 25, 2026
Reserved
Mar 6, 2026

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Description

OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. In versions prior to 24.10.6 and 25.12.1, the mdns daemon has a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the match_ipv6_addresses function, triggered when processing PTR queries for IPv6 reverse DNS domains (.ip6.arpa) received via multicast DNS on UDP port 5353. During processing, the domain name from name_buffer is copied via strcpy into a fixed 256-byte stack buffer, and then the reverse IPv6 request is extracted into a buffer of only 46 bytes (INET6_ADDRSTRLEN). Because the length of the data is never validated before this extraction, an attacker can supply input larger than 46 bytes, causing an out-of-bounds write. This allows a specially crafted DNS query to overflow the stack buffer in match_ipv6_addresses, potentially enabling remote code execution. This issue has been fixed in versions 24.10.6 and 25.12.1.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.5 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
openwrtopenwrt
  • >= 25.12.0-rc1, < 25.12.1Affected
  • < 24.10.6Affected

References

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