vulnerability

Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-25683: dnsmasq: heap-based buffer overflow with large memcpy in get_rdata() when DNSSEC is enabled

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2021-01-20
Added
2021-03-12
Modified
2025-04-11

Description

A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in dnsmasq when DNSSEC is enabled and before it validates the received DNS entries. A remote attacker, who can create valid DNS replies, could use this flaw to cause an overflow in a heap-allocated memory. This flaw is caused by the lack of length checks in rfc1035.c:extract_name(), which could be abused to make the code execute memcpy() with a negative size in get_rdata() and cause a crash in dnsmasq, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution

linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos
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