vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-875e4cf8-3f0e-11e6-b3c8-14dae9d210b8 (CVE-2015-8899): dnsmasq -- denial of service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 30, 2016
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

reports: Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a reply with an empty DNS address that has an (1) A or (2) AAAA record defined locally.

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-package-dnsmasqfreebsd-upgrade-package-dnsmasq-devel
Title
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