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dnsmasq Denial of Service and DNS Cache Poisoning

Secunia Advisory:

SA31197

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Release Date:

2008-07-23

Last Update:

2008-07-29

Popularity:

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Critical:

Moderately critical

Impact:

Spoofing
DoS

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Dnsmasq 2.x

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Solution:
Update to version 2.45.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Dan Kaminsky, IOActive
2) The vendor thanks Carlos Carvalho

Changelog:
2008-07-29: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
dnsmasq release announcements:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.dns.dnsmasq.general/2156
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.dns.dnsmasq.general/2189
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.dns.dnsmasq.general/2199

Vendor statement regarding DNS cache poisoning:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.dns.dnsmasq.general/2176

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