Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.
From USN-5408-1:
Petr MenÅ¡Ãk and Richard Johnson discovered that Dnsmasq incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or expose sensitive information.
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