vulnerability
Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2020-25687)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jan 20, 2021 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 20, 2021
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in dnsmasq before version 2.83 when DNSSEC is enabled and before it validates the received DNS entries. A remote attacker, who can create valid DNS replies, could use this flaw to cause an overflow in a heap-allocated memory. This flaw is caused by the lack of length checks in rtc1035.c:extract_name(), which could be abused to make the code execute memcpy() with a negative size in sort_rrset() and cause a crash in dnsmasq, resulting in a Denial of Service.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2020-25687
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-25687
- URL-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891568
- URL-https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00027.html
- URL-https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QGB7HL3OWHTLEPSMLDGOMXQKG3KM2QME/
- URL-https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WYW3IR6APUSKOYKL5FT3ACTIHWHGQY32/
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202101-38
- URL-https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-17
- URL-https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4844
- URL-https://www.jsof-tech.com/disclosures/dnspooq/
- CWE-122
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