Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package dnsmasq  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
70.45% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-DNSMASQ-356193
  • published3 Oct 2017
  • disclosed3 Oct 2017

Introduced: 3 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-14494  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dnsmasq package and not the dnsmasq package as distributed by Ubuntu.

dnsmasq before 2.78, when configured as a relay, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information via vectors involving handling DHCPv6 forwarded requests.

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