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CVE-2020-25687

medium · 5.9

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

5.9
CVSS
86.7%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
100th
EPSS percentile
2021-01-20
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-122

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
thekelleysdnsmasq< 2.83
fedoraprojectfedora32
fedoraprojectfedora33
debiandebian_linux9.0
debiandebian_linux10.0

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