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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-102715"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-29T17:42:35.719Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-29T18:42:21.812Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:50.502Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-102715"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-102715.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-102715"
title: "mDNS string-cache lookup matches on slot size, so a peer name aliases a shorter one and the response encoder writes past the packet"
summary: "Any host on the LAN can send two mDNS records and make the responder write past the end of its\n\n\n\ntransmit packet.\n\n\n\nThe string table stores each name in a slot rounded up to a multiple of four:\n\n\n\n```c\n\n\n\n/* addons/mdns/nxd_mdns.c:11436, 11443, 11447 */\n\n\n\nmemory_len = ((memory_len & 0xFFFFFFFC) + 8) & 0xFFFFFFFF;\n\n\n\n...\n\n\n\nlen = *((USHORT*)(p - 2));           /* slot size, not string length */\n\n\n\nif ((len == memory_len) && ... _nx_mdns_name_match(start, memory_ptr, memory_size) ...)\n\n\n\n```\n\n\n\nThe lookup that decides whether an incoming name is already stored compares the rounded slot size,\n\n\n\nso names of 12, 13, 14 and 15 characters share one bucket. A second name in the bucket is answered\n\n\n\nwith the pointer to the first, and the record then carries a string up to three bytes longer than\n\n\n\nthe length the caller accounted for. `_nx_mdns_packet_rr_add` (nxd_mdns.c:8911) sizes its only\n\n\n\nbound check from that stale length, and `_nx_mdns_name_string_encode` writes the real string.\n\n\n\nTwo PTR records are enough, both ordinary mDNS responses to a `_http._tcp` query, with owner names\n\n\n\nwhose lengths fall in the same bucket:\n\n\n\n```\n\n\n\n==87491==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow\n\n\n\nWRITE of size 1 at 0x611000000124 thread T5\n\n    #0 _nx_mdns_name_string_encode  addons/mdns/nxd_mdns.c:13096\n    #1 _nx_mdns_packet_rr_add       addons/mdns/nxd_mdns.c:8911\n\n\n0x611000000124 is 0 bytes to the right of 228-byte region\n\n\n\n```\n\n\n\nThe overflow is one to three bytes of attacker-influenced name data past `nx_packet_data_end`. In a\n\n\n\nnormal pool that lands in the next packet in the same pool rather than in a redzone, so the visible\n\n\n\neffect is a corrupted neighbouring packet or a corrupted pool free list rather than a clean crash.\n\n\n\nCompare the slot size against the stored string length before declaring a match, or keep the\n\n\n\nstring length in the slot header and return it to the caller so the encoder and the bound check\n\n\n\nagree."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.1"}],"vendor":"Eclipse Foundation","product":"eclipse-threadx/netxduo","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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