RHSA-2008:0789: Moderate: dnsmasq security update

First published: Mon Aug 11 2008(Updated: )

Dnsmasq is lightweight DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to<br>provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network.<br>The dnsmasq DNS resolver used a fixed source UDP port. This could have made<br>DNS spoofing attacks easier. dnsmasq has been updated to use random UDP<br>source ports, helping to make DNS spoofing attacks harder. (CVE-2008-1447)<br>All dnsmasq users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, that<br>upgrades dnsmasq to version 2.45, which resolves this issue.

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