ubuntu-cve-2026-14461
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2026-07-10 11:16
Modified
2026-07-15 17:48
Summary
Details

mtr is vulnerable to Out-of-bound read vulnerability in ipinfo_lookup() function. An attacker who can influence the TXT response used for AS lookups can trigger this bug by returning a DNS response that is larger than 512 bytes and uses a crafted compression pointer in the answer NAME field. ipinfo_lookup() function uses the length of the response as the end-of-message boundary for dn_expand() function. The result is a reliable crash. This issue exists in the mtr through version 0.96 and it was fixed in commit 48e1794414d338ce47abc0f27c25ade8788af9c3.


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          {
            "binary_name": "mtr",
            "binary_version": "0.85-2"
          },
          {
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            "binary_version": "0.85-2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
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        "name": "mtr",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/mtr@0.85-2?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
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            {
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            }
          ],
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        }
      ],
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        "0.85-1",
        "0.85-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "mtr",
            "binary_version": "0.86-1ubuntu0.1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mtr-tiny",
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          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "mtr",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/mtr@0.86-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
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        "0.86-1",
        "0.86-1ubuntu0.1"
      ]
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    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
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            "binary_name": "mtr",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mtr-tiny",
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          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "mtr",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/mtr@0.92-1?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:20.04:LTS",
        "name": "mtr",
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      },
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            "binary_name": "mtr",
            "binary_version": "0.95-1"
          },
          {
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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
        "name": "mtr",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/mtr@0.95-1?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
      },
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    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
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          {
            "binary_name": "mtr",
            "binary_version": "0.95-1.1ubuntu0.1"
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            "binary_version": "0.95-1.1ubuntu0.1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS",
        "name": "mtr",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/mtr@0.95-1.1ubuntu0.1?arch=source\u0026distro=noble"
      },
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          ],
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      ],
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        "0.95-1.1",
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        "0.95-1.1build2",
        "0.95-1.1ubuntu0.1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "mtr",
            "binary_version": "0.95-1.1ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mtr-tiny",
            "binary_version": "0.95-1.1ubuntu2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.04:LTS",
        "name": "mtr",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/mtr@0.95-1.1ubuntu2?arch=source\u0026distro=resolute"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
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        "0.95-1.1ubuntu2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "mtr is vulnerable to Out-of-bound read vulnerability in ipinfo_lookup() function. An attacker who can influence the TXT response used for AS lookups can trigger this bug by returning a DNS response that is larger than 512 bytes and uses a crafted compression pointer in the answer NAME field.\u00a0ipinfo_lookup() function uses the length of the response as the\u00a0end-of-message boundary for dn_expand() function.\u00a0The result is a reliable crash. This issue exists in the mtr through version 0.96 and it was fixed in commit\u00a048e1794414d338ce47abc0f27c25ade8788af9c3.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-14461",
  "modified": "2026-07-15T17:48:13Z",
  "published": "2026-07-10T11:16:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-14461"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-14461"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-14461"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/commit/48e1794414d338ce47abc0f27c25ade8788af9c3"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-14461"
  ]
}



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