CVE-2021-45955

2021-12-3123:53:42

mitre

www.cve.org

9.9 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

50.5%

JSON

Dnsmasq 2.86 has a heap-based buffer overflow in resize_packet (called from FuzzResizePacket and fuzz_rfc1035.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