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Description

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 DNSSEC response may overwrite a small amount of adjacent heap metadata. DNSSEC support is not compiled in by default and must also be enabled at runtime.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 dnsmasq No fix yet —
Debian 13 dnsmasq No fix yet —
Debian 12 dnsmasq No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 dnsmasq No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS dnsmasq No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS dnsmasq No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS dnsmasq No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS dnsmasq No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS dnsmasq No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS dnsmasq No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS dnsmasq No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed dnsmasq 2.93-3.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12415-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 dnsmasq No fix yet —

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