CVE-2023-28450 Affecting dnsmasq package, versions <2.90-150400.16.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-DNSMASQ-8620089
  • published13 Jan 2025
  • disclosed10 Jan 2025

Introduced: 10 Jan 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 dnsmasq to version 2.90-150400.16.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dnsmasq package and not the dnsmasq package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Dnsmasq before 2.90. The default maximum EDNS.0 UDP packet size was set to 4096 but should be 1232 because of DNS Flag Day 2020.

CVSS Scores

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