Service interruption via unaligned DNS buffer write
Published Jun 6, 2024 · Updated Mar 13, 2025
Undefined behavior in pymumu SmartDNS commit 54b4dc allows remote attackers to interrupt the DNS service via crafted DNS traffic. The dns.c writer casts a one-byte-aligned output-buffer address to unsigned short and stores a two-byte value through it, causing an unaligned write. No authentication or user interaction is required; exploitation is limited to service availability, and the upstream report does not document code execution or data exposure.
Summary
What happened
Undefined behavior in pymumu SmartDNS commit 54b4dc allows remote attackers to interrupt the DNS service via crafted DNS traffic. The dns.c writer casts a one-byte-aligned output-buffer address to unsigned short and stores a two-byte value through it, causing an unaligned write. No authentication or user interaction is required; exploitation is limited to service availability, and the upstream report does not document code execution or data exposure.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-24199
- Published
- Jun 6, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 13, 2025
- Vendor
- pymumu
- Product
- SmartDNS
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jun 6, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=54b4dc
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