vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3009-1 (CVE-2015-8899): Dnsmasq vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 20, 2016
Added
Jun 20, 2016
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

Description

Edwin Török discovered that Dnsmasq incorrectly handled certain CNAME
responses. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Dnsmasq to
crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-upgrade-dnsmasqubuntu-upgrade-dnsmasq-baseubuntu-upgrade-dnsmasq-utils
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