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Medium 4.3
Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: heap out-of-bounds read in dhcpv6 option 39 fqdn decoder
A flaw was found in dnsmasq. The DHCPv6 client hostname parser can read one byte past the end of a crafted FQDN option because it checks the next label length before confirming the pointer is still inside the option. An attacker on the local network can trigg…
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Medium 4.3
Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: --leasequery without address argument applies no source address check
A flaw was found in dnsmasq. When DHCP leasequery is enabled without listing allowed source addresses, the server does not check who sent the query. A host on the local network can request DHCP lease records and learn assigned addresses, MAC addresses, hostna…
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Medium 6.8
Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: tftp prefetch cache keyed on stale heap pointer serves wrong file content
A flaw was found in dnsmasq. The TFTP server can serve the wrong file contents because a recently used transfer cache is not invalidated when a transfer finishes. An attacker on the local network who can request a TFTP file may cause a later client to receive…
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Medium 5.3
Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: tcp/53 child-slot exhaustion starves dnssec validation
A flaw was found in dnsmasq. The TCP DNS service uses a small fixed pool of child processes and does not set a receive timeout on client connections. A remote attacker can open idle TCP connections to port 53 and occupy the entire pool, preventing new TCP DNS…
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Medium 5.3
Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: heap out-of-bounds write in dnssec validator via to_wire/from_wire transforms
A flaw was found in dnsmasq. After a reduction of internal domain-name buffer sizes, the DNSSEC validator can write a few bytes past a name buffer when converting names to and from DNS wire format. An attacker who can cause the server to validate a crafted DN…
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Medium 6.8
Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: out-of-bailiwick cache injection through cname chase in split-dns configurations
A flaw was found in dnsmasq. When following a CNAME in a DNS response, the resolver can cache records for the CNAME target without checking that those records belong to the responding server's authorized zone. In split-DNS deployments that send some domains t…
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Medium 5.3
Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: out-of-bounds read in find_soa() due to missing extrabytes validation
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in dnsmasq's find_soa() function in src/rfc1035.c. When parsing NS section records, extract_name() is called with extrabytes=0, failing to validate that 10 additional bytes exist for fixed-length DNS record fields. A…
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Medium 5.9
Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: heap buffer overflow in log_query() when logging unsupported ds/dnskey replies
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in dnsmasq. When DNSSEC validation and query logging are both enabled, logging of DS or DNSKEY replies containing unsupported algorithm or digest types can cause dnsmasq to write past the end of an internal logging buffe…
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Medium 5.3CVE-2026-4893 Public exploit
CVE-2026-4893
An information disclosure vulnerability in dnsmasq allows remote attackers to bypass source checks via a crafted DNS packet with RFC 7871 client subnet information.
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Medium 5.3
CVE-2026-4891
A heap-based out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the DNSSEC validation of dnsmasq allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted DNS packet.
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Medium 5.5
dnsmasq-utils 2.79-1 - 'dhcp_release' Denial of Service
Dnsmasq-utils 2.79-1 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the dhcp_release utility that allows attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying excessive input. Attackers can trigger a core dump and terminate the dhcp_release process by sending a cr…
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Medium 4.0
A flaw was found in dnsmasq in versions before 2.85. When configured to use a specific server for a given network inter…