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A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. A heap...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way RRSets are sorted before validating with DNSSEC data. An attacker on the network, who can forge DNS replies such as that they are accepted as valid, could use this flaw to cause a buffer overflow with arbitrary data in a heap memory segment, possibly executing code on the machine. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 20, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

18.356%
(96th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-25681

GHSA ID

GHSA-34v3-rp23-947c

Source code

No known source code

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