PT-2008-4755 · Simon Kelley · Dnsmasq

Published 2008-07-28 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-3350

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions dnsmasq version 2.43

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in the daemon crashing. This can be achieved by sending a DHCPINFORM message without having a DHCP lease, or by attempting to renew a nonexistent DHCP lease for an invalid subnet as an unknown client.

Recommendations For dnsmasq version 2.43, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3350

Affected Products

Dnsmasq

References · 10

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-3350 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31197 · Vendor Advisory
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.dns.dnsmasq.general/2189 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-3350 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3350 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3350 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2166 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43957 · Note
• http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43960 · Note