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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2017-10-10 | |
| Rule Name: | Dnsmasq Lack of Free Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2017-14495) | |
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| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | Memory leak in dnsmasq before 2.78, when the --add-mac, --add-cpe-id or --add-subnet option is specified, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving DNS response creation. | |
| Impact: | An attacker can launch a denial of service attack by exploiting the vulnerability successfully. | |
| Affected OS: | Other Unix, FreeBSD, Linux | |
| Reference: | CVE-2017-14495 ExploitDB:42945 |
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| Solutions |
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| The vendor has issued a fix (2.78). The vendor advisory is available at http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG |