CVE-2008-2357: Matt Kimball And Roger Wolff Mtr

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the split_redraw function in split.c in mtr before 0.73, when invoked with the -p (aka --split) option, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS PTR record. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a vulnerability in the ns_name_ntop function in resolv/ns_name.c in glibc and the proper fix should be in glibc; if so, then this should not be treated as a vulnerability in mtr.

Affected products

• Matt Kimball And Roger Wolff Mtr: up to and including 0.72; version 0.21 only; version 0.22 only; version 0.23 only; version 0.24 only; version 0.25 only; …

Published 2008-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.