vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-13704: Improper Input Validation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 2, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Oct 1, 2024

Description

In dnsmasq before 2.78, if the DNS packet size does not match the expected size, the size parameter in a memset call gets a negative value. As it is an unsigned value, memset ends up writing up to 0xffffffff zero's (0xffffffffffffffff in 64 bit platforms), making dnsmasq crash.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-dnsmasq
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