A flaw has been found in Trusted Domain Project OpenDMARC up to 1.4.2. Affected by this vulnerability is the function opendmarc_spf_ipv6_explode in the library libopendmarc/opendmarc_spf.c of the component SPF Parser. This manipulation of the argument cp causes null pointer dereference. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been published and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Weakness
The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.
Potential Mitigations
- Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
- For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.
Related Attack Patterns
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