National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3214

Overview

dnsmasq 2.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by (1) renewing a nonexistent lease or (2) sending a DHCPREQUEST for an IP address that is not in the same network, related to the DHCP NAK response from the daemon.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (07/25/2008)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of dnsmasq as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/47438

Hyperlink:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/47438

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG

Hyperlink:http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080712 Re: CVE request for dnsmasq DoS

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/12/3

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080708 Re: CVE request for dnsmasq DoS

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/08/8

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080703 Re: CVE request for dnsmasq DoS

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/03/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080702 Re: CVE request for dnsmasq DoS

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/02/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080701 Re: CVE request for dnsmasq DoS

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/01/8

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080630 CVE request for dnsmasq DoS

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/7

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnsmasq/?branch_id=1991&release_id=217681

Hyperlink:http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnsmasq/?branch_id=1991&release_id=217681