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CVE-2020-25683

Description

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


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
thekelleys:dnsmasq thekelleys dnsmasq 2.83
fedoraproject:fedora fedoraproject fedora 32
fedoraproject:fedora fedoraproject fedora 33
debian:debian_linux debian debian linux 9.0
debian:debian_linux debian debian linux 10.0

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