vulnerability

Arch Linux: Insufficient validation (CVE-2020-25684)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 20, 2021
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A flaw was found when getting a reply from a forwarded query, where dnsmasq before version 2.83 checks in forward.c:reply_query() if the reply destination address/port is used by the pending forwarded queries. However, it does not use the address/port to retrieve the exact forwarded query, substantially reducing the number of attempts an attacker on the network would have to perform to forge a reply and get it accepted by dnsmasq. This issue contrasts with RFC5452, which specifies a query's attributes that all must be used to match a reply. This flaw allows an attacker to perform a DNS Cache Poisoning attack. If chained with CVE-2020-25685 or CVE-2020-25686, the attack complexity of a successful attack is reduced.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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