CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-8899

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-06-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-06-30
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a reply with an empty DNS address that has an (1) A or (2) AAAA record defined locally.

Affected configurations

• canonical ubuntu linux 15.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • thekelleys dnsmasq (<= 2.75)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References