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CVE-2020-25686

Description

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.


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
Alpine edge-main dnsmasq 2.83-r0
Alpine 3.10-main dnsmasq 2.83-r0
Alpine 3.11-main dnsmasq 2.83-r0
Alpine 3.12-main dnsmasq 2.83-r0
Alpine 3.13-main dnsmasq 2.83-r0
Alpine 3.14-main dnsmasq 2.83-r0
Alpine 3.15-main dnsmasq 2.83-r0
Alpine 3.16-main dnsmasq 2.83-r0
Alpine 3.17-main dnsmasq 2.83-r0
Alpine 3.18-main dnsmasq 2.83-r0

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