CVE-2017-13704

HIGH7.5EPSS 77.8%
Published: 10/3/2017Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-13704DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13704

Description

In dnsmasq before 2.78, if the DNS packet size does not match the expected size, the size parameter in a memset call gets a negative value. As it is an unsigned value, memset ends up writing up to 0xffffffff zero's (0xffffffffffffffff in 64 bit platforms), making dnsmasq crash.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (2)