CVE-2019-14513

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.05%

dnsmasq - security update

Published: 8/1/2019Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14513

Description

Improper bounds checking in Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows an attacker controlled DNS server to send large DNS packets that result in a read operation beyond the buffer allocated for the packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14491.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

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

References (1)