CVE-2026-101337 (GCVE-0-2026-101337)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-14 10:56 – Updated: 2026-10-14 14:09
VLAI
Title
Stack overwrite from specially formatted base64 RDATA field
Summary
When base64 data is split up in pieces, of 3 character or less, tokens were incorrectly calculated to produce 0 bytes. This enables attackers to overwrite the stack with up to 64K of attacker controlled data. Zone files which are written out by NSD itself, such as for zones for which the NSD instance is secondary, will not be formatted like this. The zone file must be fed to NSD directly, (but it could come, for example, from an operator controlled provisioning system).
Severity
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-14 14:09 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
NLnet Labs CNA
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 76 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
NLnet Labs NSD Affected: 4.10.0 , < 4.15.3 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-10-14 12:00
Credits
Qifan Zhang from Palo Alto Networks Gaurang Maheta
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