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Medium USN-4976-1 1 CVE

dnsmasq vulnerability

Published Jun 2, 2021 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

Petr Mensik discovered that Dnsmasq incorrectly randomized source ports in
certain configurations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
facilitate DNS cache poisoning attacks.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS dnsmasq 2.79-1ubuntu0.4
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS dnsmasq 2.80-1.1ubuntu1.4

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3448