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Medium ALSA-2023:6524 1 CVE

Moderate: dnsmasq security and bug fix update

Published Nov 7, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The dnsmasq packages contain Dnsmasq, a lightweight DNS (Domain Name Server) forwarder and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server.

Security Fix(es):

* dnsmasq: default maximum EDNS.0 UDP packet size was set to 4096 but should be 1232 (CVE-2023-28450)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 dnsmasq 2.85-14.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 dnsmasq-utils 2.85-14.el9

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28450
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2178948
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-6524.html