An issue was discovered in adns before 1.5.2. adns_rr_info mishandles a bogus *datap. The general pattern for formatting integers is to sprintf into a fixed-size buffer. This is correct if the input is in the right range; if it isn't, the buffer may be overrun (depending on the sizes of the types on the current platform). Of course the inputs ought to be right. And there are pointers in there too, so perhaps one could say that the caller ought to check these things. It may be better to require the caller to make the pointer structure right, but to have the code here be defensive about (and tolerate with an error but without crashing) out-of-range integer values. So: it should defend each of these integer conversion sites with a check for the actual permitted range, and return adns_s_invaliddata if not. The lack of this check causes the SOA sign extension bug to be a serious security problem: the sign extended SOA value is out of range, and overruns the buffer when reconverted. This is related to sign extending SOA 32-bit integer fields, and use of a signed data type.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2017-9106 is rated Moderate Risk (58.1/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.88%). Core evidence: EPSS rose +1.31% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.56% | 1.88% | +1.31% |
| 2 | 2026-04-22 | 0.53% | 0.56% | +0.03% |
| 3 | 2025-11-21 | — | 0.53% | — |
Full EPSS history (9 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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3.9 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2017-9106 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (adns), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9106 |
suse
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high | CVE-2017-9106 severity important: SUSE including 23 source package names (24.164:libadns1-1.4-103.3.1, 26.196:libadns1-1.4-103.3.1, …), 65 product×package rows across 53 product lines (Container caasp/v4/nginx-ingress-controller, Container suse/ltss/sle12.5/sles12sp5, … (53 product lines)): Fixed 65. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9106/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2017-9106 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (adns), 17 status rows across 17 suites (bionic, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 11, needed 3, DNE 1, ignored 1, needs-triage 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9106 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnu | adns | < 1.5.2 | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:adns:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 31 | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 32 | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |