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Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Heap-based buffer overflow in dnsmasq before 2.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted IPv6 router advertisement request.

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First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Red Hat Product Security has been made aware of a stack-based buffer overflow affecting the DHCP implementation of dnsmasq.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

DISPUTED Dnsmasq 2.86 has a heap-based buffer overflow in answerrequest (called from FuzzAnswerTheRequest and fuzzrfc1035.c). NOTE: the vendor's position is that CVE-2021-45951 through CVE-2021-45957 "do not represent real vulnerabilities, to the best of our knowledge."

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First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

DISPUTED Dnsmasq 2.86 has a heap-based buffer overflow in printmac (called from logpacket and dhcpreply). NOTE: the vendor's position is that CVE-2021-45951 through CVE-2021-45957 "do not represent real vulnerabilities, to the best of our knowledge."

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First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

DISPUTED Dnsmasq 2.86 has a heap-based buffer overflow in extractname (called from answerauth and FuzzAuth). NOTE: the vendor's position is that CVE-2021-45951 through CVE-2021-45957 "do not represent real vulnerabilities, to the best of our knowledge."

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First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

DISPUTED Dnsmasq 2.86 has a heap-based buffer overflow in resizepacket (called from FuzzResizePacket and fuzzrfc1035.c) because of the lack of a proper bounds check upon pseudo header re-insertion. NOTE: the vendor's position is that CVE-2021-45951 through CVE-2021-45957 "do not represent real vulnerabilities, to the best of our knowledge." However, a contributor states that a security patch (mentioned in 016162.html) is needed.

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First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

DISPUTED Dnsmasq 2.86 has a heap-based buffer overflow in extractname (called from hashquestions and fuzzutil.c). NOTE: the vendor's position is that CVE-2021-45951 through CVE-2021-45957 "do not represent real vulnerabilities, to the best of our knowledge."

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First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

DISPUTED Dnsmasq 2.86 has a heap-based buffer overflow in dhcpreply (called from dhcppacket and FuzzDhcp). NOTE: the vendor's position is that CVE-2021-45951 through CVE-2021-45957 "do not represent real vulnerabilities, to the best of our knowledge."

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First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

DISPUTED Dnsmasq 2.86 has a heap-based buffer overflow in checkbadaddress (called from checkforboguswildcard and FuzzCheckForBogusWildcard). NOTE: the vendor's position is that CVE-2021-45951 through CVE-2021-45957 "do not represent real vulnerabilities, to the best of our knowledge."

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First published (updated )
Severity
8.3
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way RRSets are sorted before validating with DNSSEC data. An attacker on the network, who can forge DNS replies such as that they are accepted as valid, could use this flaw to cause a buffer overflow with arbitrary data in a heap memory segment, possibly executing code on the machine. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

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First published (updated )
Severity
8.3
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the way dnsmasq extract names from DNS packets before validating them with DNSSEC data. An attacker, who can create valid DNS replies, could use this flaw to cause an overflow with arbitrary data in a heap-allocated memory, possibly executing code on the machine. The flaw is in rfc1035.c:extractname() function, which writes data to the memory pointed by name assuming MAXDNAME2 bytes are available in the buffer. However, in some code execution paths it is possible extractname() gets passed an offset from the base buffer, thus reducing in practice the number of available bytes that can be written in the buffer.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

dnsmasq 2.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by (1) renewing a nonexistent lease or (2) sending a DHCPREQUEST for an IP address that is not in the same network, related to the DHCP NAK response from the daemon.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Integer Underflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Integer underflow in the addpseudoheader function in dnsmasq before 2.78 , when the --add-mac, --add-cpe-id or --add-subnet option is specified, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted DNS request.

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Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Certain DNSSEC aspects of the DNS protocol (in RFC 4033, 4034, 4035, 6840, and related RFCs) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via one or more DNSSEC responses, aka the "KeyTrap" issue. One of the concerns is that, when there is a zone with many DNSKEY and RRSIG records, the protocol specification implies that an algorithm must evaluate all combinations of DNSKEY and RRSIG records.

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Source: Launchpad
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Integer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

dnsmasq 2.9 is vulnerable to Integer Overflow via forwardquery.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Memory leak in dnsmasq before 2.78, when the --add-mac, --add-cpe-id or --add-subnet option is specified, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving DNS response creation.

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First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Input Validation
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a reply with an empty DNS address that has an (1) A or (2) AAAA record defined locally.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Input Validation
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

In dnsmasq before 2.78, if the DNS packet size does not match the expected size, the size parameter in a memset call gets a negative value. As it is an unsigned value, memset ends up writing up to 0xffffffff zero's (0xffffffffffffffff in 64 bit platforms), making dnsmasq crash.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Improper bounds checking in Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows an attacker controlled DNS server to send large DNS packets that result in a read operation beyond the buffer allocated for the packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14491.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

A vulnerability was found in the implementation of DNSSEC in Dnsmasq up to and including 2.78. Wildcard synthesized NSEC records could be improperly interpreted to prove the non-existence of hostnames that actually exist.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.1
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

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First published (updated )
Severity
7.1
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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:extractname(), which could be abused to make the code execute memcpy() with a negative size in getrdata() and cause a crash in dnsmasq, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Core Security Technologies discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in dnsmasq when the TFTP service is enabled ('--enable-tftp'). If the configured tftp-prefix is sufficiently long, and a remote user sent a request which sends a long file name, dnsmasq could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

The default tftp-prefix is /var/tftpd, which is short enough to make this difficult to exploit; if a longer prefix is used then arbitrary code execution may be possible. As well, Red Hat does not have TFTP support enabled by default.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
6.4
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

The tcprequest function in Dnsmasq before 2.73rc4 does not properly handle the return value of the setupreply 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.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.9
Infoleak
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

dnsmasq before 2.78, when configured as a relay, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information via vectors involving handling DHCPv6 forwarded requests.

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First published (updated )
Severity
5
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description of problem: On my workstation, as a virtual machine host, I have NetworkManager's dnsmasq configured to forward DNS queries for a local domain to 192.168.122.1, so I can resolve those to virtual machine DHCP hostnames. Recently this stopped working.

With manual dig commands, I found that TCP queries still work, but UDP doesn't. For example, in libvirt I have a statically defined name "vhost" to 192.168.122.1 itself. From the host, the command "dig +short +tcp @192.168.122.1 vhost" resolves that just fine. But "dig +short +notcp @192.168.122.1 vhost" says "connection timed out; no servers could be reached". From a guest, +tcp and +notcp both work fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-0.9.11.8-2.fc17.x8664, dnsmasq-2.63-1.fc17.x8664 I also tried dnsmasq-2.65-1.fc17.x8664 from updates-testing

How reproducible: 100%

Steps to Reproduce: 1. From the virtual machine host, try to query the libvirt dnsmasq. Actual results: $ dig +short +tcp @192.168.122.1 vhost 192.168.122.1 $ dig +short +notcp @192.168.122.1 vhost ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Expected results: A positive answer from both TCP and UDP queries.

Additional info: I suspect this is related to the fixes for CVE-2012-3411, but it seems weird that UDP and TCP would be treated differently.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

dnsmasq 2.43 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by (1) sending a DHCPINFORM while lacking a DHCP lease, or (2) attempting to renew a nonexistent DHCP lease for an invalid subnet as an "unknown client," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-3214.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The tftprequest function in tftp.c in dnsmasq before 2.50, when --enable-tftp is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a TFTP read (aka RRQ) request with a malformed blksize option.

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First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. When receiving a query, dnsmasq does not check for an existing pending request for the same name and forwards a new request. By default, a maximum of 150 pending queries can be sent to upstream servers, so there can be at most 150 queries for the same name. This flaw allows an off-path attacker on the network to substantially reduce the number of attempts that it would have to perform to forge a reply and have it accepted by dnsmasq. This issue is mentioned in the "Birthday Attacks" section of RFC5452. If chained with CVE-2020-25684, the attack complexity of a successful attack is reduced. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

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First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Weak Encryption
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. When getting a reply from a forwarded query, dnsmasq checks in forward.c:replyquery(), which is the forwarded query that matches the reply, by only using a weak hash of the query name. Due to the weak hash (CRC32 when dnsmasq is compiled without DNSSEC, SHA-1 when it is) this flaw allows an off-path attacker to find several different domains all having the same hash, substantially reducing the number of attempts they would have to perform to forge a reply and get it accepted by dnsmasq. This is in contrast with RFC5452, which specifies that the query name is one of the attributes of a query that must be used to match a reply. This flaw could be abused to perform a DNS Cache Poisoning attack. If chained with CVE-2020-25684 the attack complexity of a successful attack is reduced. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

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First published (updated )

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