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Dnsmasq: poisoning and DoS

Package(s):

dnsmasq

CVE #(s):

Created:

April 4, 2005

Updated:

July 21, 2005

Description:

Dnsmasq does not properly detect that DNS replies received do not correspond to any DNS query that was sent. Rob Holland of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit team also discovered two off-by-one buffer overflows that could crash DHCP lease files parsing.

Alerts:

Slackware	SSA:2005-201-01	2005-07-21
Gentoo	200504-03	2005-04-04

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