vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15107: Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 23, 2018
Added
Sep 21, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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

alpine-linux-upgrade-dnsmasq
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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