A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in dnsmasq when DNSSEC is enabled and before it validates the received DNS entries. This flaw allows a remote attacker, who can create valid DNS replies, to cause an overflow in a heap-allocated memory. This flaw is caused by the lack of length checks in rfc1035.c:extractname(), which could be abused to make the code execute memcpy() with a negative size in sortrrset() and cause a crash in dnsmasq, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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{ "availability": "No subscription required", "ubuntu_priority": "medium", "binaries": [ { "binary_version": "2.79-1ubuntu0.2", "binary_name": "dnsmasq" }, { "binary_version": "2.79-1ubuntu0.2", "binary_name": "dnsmasq-base" }, { "binary_version": "2.79-1ubuntu0.2", "binary_name": "dnsmasq-base-lua" }, { "binary_version": "2.79-1ubuntu0.2", "binary_name": "dnsmasq-utils" } ] }
{ "availability": "No subscription required", "ubuntu_priority": "medium", "binaries": [ { "binary_version": "2.80-1.1ubuntu1.2", "binary_name": "dnsmasq" }, { "binary_version": "2.80-1.1ubuntu1.2", "binary_name": "dnsmasq-base" }, { "binary_version": "2.80-1.1ubuntu1.2", "binary_name": "dnsmasq-base-lua" }, { "binary_version": "2.80-1.1ubuntu1.2", "binary_name": "dnsmasq-utils" } ] }