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Heap overflow with zero-length TXT record #11

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In the glibc fork of the Hesiod, we recently fixed a heap-based buffer overflow which is triggered by an invalid (zero-length) TXT record:

We did not treat this as a security vulnerability because Hesiod treats DNS data as trusted by design, so no trust boundary is crossed.

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