vulnerability

Arch Linux: Insufficient validation (CVE-2020-25686)

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 receiving a query, where dnsmasq before version 2.83 does not check for an existing pending request for the same name and forwards a new request. By default, a maximum of 150 pending queries can be sent to upstream servers, so there can be at most 150 queries for the same name. This flaw allows an off-path attacker on the network to substantially reduce the number of attempts that would have to be performed to forge a reply and have it accepted by dnsmasq. This issue is mentioned in the "Birthday Attacks" section of RFC5452. If chained with CVE-2020-25684, the attack complexity of a successful attack is reduced.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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