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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2017-10-06 | |
| Rule Name: | Dnsmasq IPv6 Information Leak Vulnerability (CVE-2017-14494) | |
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| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | dnsmasq before 2.78, when configured as a relay, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information via vectors involving handling DHCPv6 forwarded requests. | |
| Impact: | An attacker can abtain sensitive information of the target victim, and do malicious actions to gain profits using the information. | |
| Affected OS: | Other Unix, FreeBSD, Linux | |
| Reference: | CVE-2017-14994 ExploitDB:42944 |
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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 |