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OESA-2024-1904 (CVE-2023-49441)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2024-07-26 11:07 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:07 – Source website

Summary

dnsmasq security update

Details

Dnsmasq provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot. It is designed to be lightweight and have a small footprint, suitable for resource constrained routers and firewalls. It has also been widely used for tethering on smartphones and portable hotspots, and to support virtual networking in virtualisation frameworks.

Security Fix(es):

dnsmasq 2.9 is vulnerable to Integer Overflow via forward_query.(CVE-2023-49441)

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49441	ADVISORY

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  "affected": [
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      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "aarch64": [
          "dnsmasq-2.82-15.oe2003sp4.aarch64.rpm",
          "dnsmasq-debuginfo-2.82-15.oe2003sp4.aarch64.rpm",
          "dnsmasq-debugsource-2.82-15.oe2003sp4.aarch64.rpm",
          "dnsmasq-help-2.82-15.oe2003sp4.aarch64.rpm"
        ],
        "src": [
          "dnsmasq-2.82-15.oe2003sp4.src.rpm"
        ],
        "x86_64": [
          "dnsmasq-2.82-15.oe2003sp4.x86_64.rpm",
          "dnsmasq-debuginfo-2.82-15.oe2003sp4.x86_64.rpm",
          "dnsmasq-debugsource-2.82-15.oe2003sp4.x86_64.rpm",
          "dnsmasq-help-2.82-15.oe2003sp4.x86_64.rpm"
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP4",
        "name": "dnsmasq",
        "purl": "pkg:rpm/openEuler/dnsmasq\u0026distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP4"
      },
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            {
              "introduced": "0"
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
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  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "Dnsmasq provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot. It is designed to be lightweight and have a small footprint, suitable for resource constrained routers and firewalls. It has also been widely used for tethering on smartphones and portable hotspots, and to support virtual networking in virtualisation frameworks.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\r\n\r\ndnsmasq 2.9 is vulnerable to Integer Overflow via forward_query.(CVE-2023-49441)",
  "id": "OESA-2024-1904",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:07:22Z",
  "published": "2024-07-26T11:07:22Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2024-1904"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49441"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.2",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "dnsmasq security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2023-49441"
  ]
}

CVE-2023-49441 (GCVE-0-2023-49441)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-06 21:20 – Updated: 2025-03-14 15:19

Summary

dnsmasq 2.9 is vulnerable to Integer Overflow via forward_query.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-06-18 18:34 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq…
https://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git%3…

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