# CVE-2026-14461: Out-of-bound read in mtr

- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2026-07-10 · Updated: 2026-07-10

## Affected

- BitWizard mtr: through 0.96

## Description

mtr is vulnerable to Out-of-bound read vulnerability in ipinfo_lookup() function. An attacker who can influence the TXT response used for AS lookups can trigger this bug by returning a DNS response that is larger than 512 bytes and uses a crafted compression pointer in the answer NAME field. ipinfo_lookup() function uses the length of the response as the end-of-message boundary for dn_expand() function. The result is a reliable crash. This issue exists in the mtr through version 0.96 and it was fixed in commit 48e1794414d338ce47abc0f27c25ade8788af9c3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on BitWizard mtr, apply the referenced fix per the references below.
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## References

- https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-14461
- https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/commit/48e1794414d338ce47abc0f27c25ade8788af9c3
- https://github.com/sifatnotes/Learn-SecByte-CTF-Labs-Beelzebub-SQLMap-Auth-CVE-2026-14461-Web-to-Root

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