dnsmasq -- multiple vulnerabilities

Simon Kelley reports: Today, 11th May 2026 CERT is releasing a set of six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq. These are all long-standing bugs which apply to pretty much all non-ancient versions. Christopher Cullen and Molly Jaconski write, in Vulnerability Note VU471747:...

CVE-2021-45954

Dnsmasq 2.86 has a heap-based buffer overflow in extractname called from answerauth and FuzzAuth. 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...