dnsmasqs extract_name() function can be abused to cause a heap buffer overflow, allowing an attacker to inject false DNS cache entries, which could result in DNS lookups to redirect to an attacker-controlled IP address, or to cause a DoS.
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{
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"extracted_events": [
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"fixed": "2.92rel2"
}
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}
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/2xxx/CVE-2026-2291.json",
"cna_assigner": "certcc"
}