CVE-2020-25683

2021-01-2015:25:04

CWE-122

redhat

www.cve.org

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.085 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.5%

JSON

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. A remote attacker, who can create valid DNS replies, could use this flaw to cause an overflow in a heap-allocated memory. This flaw is caused by the lack of length checks in rfc1035.c:extract_name(), which could be abused to make the code execute memcpy() with a negative size in get_rdata() and cause a crash in dnsmasq, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "dnsmasq",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "dnsmasq 2.83"
      }
    ]
  }
]