OESA-2026-2966 dnsmasq security update

Dnsmasq provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot. It is designed to be lightweight and have a small footprint, suitable for resource constrained routers and firewalls. It has also been widely used for tethering on smartphones and portabl...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-12969

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in dnsmasq's findsoa function in src/rfc1035.c. When parsing NS section records, extractname is called with extrabytes=0, failing to validate that 10 additional bytes exist for fixed-length DNS record fields. A remote attacker controlling a DNS zone can...

CVE-2026-12969 Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: out-of-bounds read in find_soa() due to missing extrabytes validation

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in dnsmasq's findsoa function in src/rfc1035.c. When parsing NS section records, extractname is called with extrabytes=0, failing to validate that 10 additional bytes exist for fixed-length DNS record fields. A remote attacker controlling a DNS zone can...