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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-28450: Vulnerability in Dnsmasq

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-28450: Vulnerability in Dnsmasq

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/15/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in Dnsmasq before 2.90. The default maximum EDNS.0 UDP packet size was set to 4096 but should be 1232 because of DNS Flag Day 2020.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-dnsmasq

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