CVE-2026-63387

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.
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Published : 2026-08-20 18:16

Updated : 2026-09-09 21:19


NVD link : CVE-2026-63387

Mitre link : CVE-2026-63387

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-63387


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CWE
CWE-121

Stack-based Buffer Overflow

CWE-193

Off-by-one Error

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write