Dnsmasq: Denial of Service

Dnsmasq: Denial of Service A vulnerability in Dnsmasq can lead to a Denial of Service condition. dnsmasq 2014-06-25 2014-06-25: 1 436894 453170 remote 2.66 2.66

Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server.

When used with certain libvirt configurations Dnsmasq replies to queries from prohibited interfaces.

A remote attackers can cause a Denial of Service via spoofed TCP based DNS queries.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Dnsmasq users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dns/dnsmasq-2.66"

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