CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
43.3%
Dnsmasq is prone to an improper bounds checking
vulnerability which may lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition.
# Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
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#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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#
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
CPE = "cpe:/a:thekelleys:dnsmasq";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.142699");
script_version("2023-03-06T10:19:58+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-03-06 10:19:58 +0000 (Mon, 06 Mar 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-08-06 06:07:51 +0000 (Tue, 06 Aug 2019)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-03-03 14:24:00 +0000 (Fri, 03 Mar 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-14513");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Dnsmasq < 2.76 DoS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_dnsmasq_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("thekelleys/dnsmasq/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Dnsmasq is prone to an improper bounds checking
vulnerability which may lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"An attacker controlled DNS server may send large DNS
packets that result in a read operation beyond the buffer allocated for the packet.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the
target host.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Dnsmasq prior to 2.76.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.76 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/Slovejoy/dnsmasq-pre2.76");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_full(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
proto = infos["proto"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "2.76")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "2.76", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, proto: proto, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
43.3%