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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-14834: Vulnerability in dnsmasq

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-14834: Vulnerability in dnsmasq

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/07/2020
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/19/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

A vulnerability was found in dnsmasq before version 2.81, where the memory leak allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving DHCP response creation.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-service-network-dnsmasq-2-81-11-4-24-0-1-75-1

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