6.4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
0.017 Low
EPSS
Percentile
88.0%
The tcp_request function in Dnsmasq before 2.73rc4 does not properly handle the return value of the setup_reply function, which allows remote attackers to read process memory and cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a malformed DNS request.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 12 | all | dnsmasq | < 2.72-3.1 | dnsmasq_2.72-3.1_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | dnsmasq | < 2.72-3.1 | dnsmasq_2.72-3.1_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | dnsmasq | < 2.72-3.1 | dnsmasq_2.72-3.1_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | dnsmasq | < 2.72-3.1 | dnsmasq_2.72-3.1_all.deb |