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Dnsmasq DHCP Broadcast Reply Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA19760
Release Date: 2006-04-24
Last Update: 2006-04-26
Popularity: 5,749 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Dnsmasq 2.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Dnsmasq, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of certain requests from a DHCP client. This can be exploited to crash the service via a DHCP client that requests for a broadcast reply.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.29.

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