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Debian: CVE-2019-14513: dnsmasq -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 1, 2019
Added
Sep 16, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Improper bounds checking in Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows an attacker controlled DNS server to send large DNS packets that result in a read operation beyond the buffer allocated for the packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14491.

Solution

debian-upgrade-dnsmasq
Title
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