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gentooGentoo FoundationGLSA-201710-27
HistoryOct 23, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

Dnsmasq: Multiple vulnerabilities

2017-10-2300:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
58

0.923 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.0%

Background

Dnsmasq is a lightweight and easily-configurable DNS forwarder and DHCP server.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dnsmasq. Please review the references below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition via crafted DNS, IPv6, or DHCPv6 packets.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Dnsmasq users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/dnsmasq-2.78"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyallnet-dns/dnsmasq<Β 2.78UNKNOWN