Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package dnsmasq-utils (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-DNSMASQUTILS-16695139
- published15 May 2026
- disclosed9 May 2026
Introduced: 9 May 2026
CVE-2026-2291 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dnsmasq-utils package and not the dnsmasq-utils package as distributed by RHEL.
dnsmasqs extract_name() function can be abused to cause a heap buffer overflow, allowing an attacker to inject false DNS cache entries, which could result in DNS lookups to redirect to an attacker-controlled IP address, or to cause a DoS.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439088
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-2291
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19158
- https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/471747
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-2291.html
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/519082
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/519093
- https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html
- https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CVE/
- https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/releases/tag/v6.6.2