USN-7689-1

Xu Mingjie discovered that Dnsmasq did not correctly handle certain memory operations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / dnsmasq

Package

Name: dnsmasq
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/dnsmasq@2.68-1ubuntu0.2+esm3?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.68-1ubuntu0.2+esm3

Affected versions

2.*

2.66-4ubuntu1

2.67-1

2.68-1

2.68-1ubuntu0.1

2.68-1ubuntu0.2

2.68-1ubuntu0.2+esm1

2.68-1ubuntu0.2+esm2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro with Legacy support add-on: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "dnsmasq",
            "binary_version": "2.68-1ubuntu0.2+esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "dnsmasq-base",
            "binary_version": "2.68-1ubuntu0.2+esm3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "dnsmasq-utils",
            "binary_version": "2.68-1ubuntu0.2+esm3"
        }
    ]
}