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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15107: dnsmasq Improper validation of wildcard synthesized NSEC records

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15107: dnsmasq Improper validation of wildcard synthesized NSEC records

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/23/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/21/2018
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

A vulnerability was found in the implementation of DNSSEC in Dnsmasq up to and including 2.78. Wildcard synthesized NSEC records could be improperly interpreted to prove the non-existence of hostnames that actually exist.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-dnsmasq

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