vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-25686): Dnsmasq vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
2021-01-19
Added
2021-01-20
Modified
2023-03-22

Description

A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. When receiving a query, dnsmasq does not check for an existing pending request for the same name and forwards a new request. By default, a maximum of 150 pending queries can be sent to upstream servers, so there can be at most 150 queries for the same name. This flaw allows an off-path attacker on the network to substantially reduce the number of attempts that it would have to perform to forge a reply and have it accepted by dnsmasq. This issue is mentioned in the "Birthday Attacks" section of RFC5452. If chained with CVE-2020-25684, the attack complexity of a successful attack is reduced. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

Solution(s)

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