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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-28450): Dnsmasq vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 15, 2023
Added
Apr 21, 2023
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Dnsmasq before 2.90. The default maximum EDNS.0 UDP packet size was set to 4096 but should be 1232 because of DNS Flag Day 2020.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-dnsmasq-baseubuntu-upgrade-dnsmasq-base
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