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CVE-2012-3411

high

Description

Dnsmasq before 2.63test1, when used with certain libvirt configurations, replies to requests from prohibited interfaces, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via a spoofed DNS query.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833033

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54353

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/12/5

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:072

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0579.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0277.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0276.html

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683372

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-3381

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

http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=54dd393f3938fc0c19088fbd319b95e37d81a2b0

http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2f38141f434e23292f84cefc33e8de76fb856147

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-03-05

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00441