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CVE-2024-25638 (GCVE-0-2024-25638)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-22 14:05 – Updated: 2025-07-24 03:55
VLAI?
Summary
dnsjava is an implementation of DNS in Java. Records in DNS replies are not checked for their relevance to the query, allowing an attacker to respond with RRs from different zones. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.0.
Severity ?
8.9 (High)
CWE
Assigner
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