USN-2593-1: Dnsmasq vulnerability
6
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
05/04/2015
07/25/2018
05/07/2015
07/09/2020
Description
The tcp_request function in Dnsmasq before 2.73rc4 does not properly handle the return value of the setup_reply function, which allows remote attackers to read process memory and cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a malformed DNS request.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-dnsmasq
- ubuntu-upgrade-dnsmasq-base
- ubuntu-upgrade-dnsmasq-utils
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