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Ubuntu: USN-4924-1 (CVE-2017-15107): Dnsmasq vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4924-1 (CVE-2017-15107): Dnsmasq vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/23/2018
Created
04/27/2021
Added
04/23/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A vulnerability was found in the implementation of DNSSEC in Dnsmasq up to and including 2.78. Wildcard synthesized NSEC records could be improperly interpreted to prove the non-existence of hostnames that actually exist.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-dnsmasq
  • ubuntu-upgrade-dnsmasq-base
  • ubuntu-upgrade-dnsmasq-utils

References

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