vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4924-1 (CVE-2019-14513): Dnsmasq vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 1, 2019
Added
Apr 23, 2021
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Improper bounds checking in Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows an attacker controlled DNS server to send large DNS packets that result in a read operation beyond the buffer allocated for the packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14491.

Solutions

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