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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-14494: dnsmasq security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-14494: dnsmasq security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/02/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2017
Modified
01/18/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-dnsmasq
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-dnsmasq-utils

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