vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-14494: Critical: dnsmasq security update (CESA-2017:2836)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 2, 2017
Added
Oct 3, 2017
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

dnsmasq before 2.78, when configured as a relay, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information via vectors involving handling DHCPv6 forwarded requests.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-dnsmasqcentos-upgrade-dnsmasq-debuginfocentos-upgrade-dnsmasq-utils

References

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