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Dnsmasq: Multiple vulnerabilities

Description

### 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 An attacker, by sending specially crafted DNS replies, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, perform a cache poisoning attack or cause a Denial of Service condition. ### 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-2.83"


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
Gentoo any net-dns/dnsmasq 2.83

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