CVE-2025-24294

Summary

The attack vector is a potential Denial of Service (DoS). The vulnerability is caused by an insufficient check on the length of a decompressed domain name within a DNS packet.

An attacker can craft a malicious DNS packet containing a highly compressed domain name. When the resolv library parses such a packet, the name decompression process consumes a large amount of CPU resources, as the library does not limit the resulting length of the name.

This resource consumption can cause the application thread to become unresponsive, resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Rubyresolv0.2 <= 0.2.2affected
Rubyresolv0.3.0 <= 0.3.0affected
Rubyresolv0.6 <= 0.6.1affected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

Additional References

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