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...