dnsmasq 2.9 is vulnerable to Integer Overflow via forward_query.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

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

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

An update of the dnsmasq package has been released.

dnsmasq 2.9 is vulnerable to Integer Overflow via forward_query.

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According to the versions of the dnsmasq package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS dnsmasq security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of dnsmasq installed on the remote host is prior to 2.76-16. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2580 advisory.

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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
226736	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-49441	Nessus	Misc.	high
215215	Photon OS 4.0: Dnsmasq PHSA-2021-4.0-0083	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
502667	Siemens SCALANCE M-800 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CVE-2023-49441)	Tenable OT Security	Tenable.ot	high
210254	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : dnsmasq (EulerOS-SA-2024-2784)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
210238	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : dnsmasq (EulerOS-SA-2024-2796)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
208408	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : dnsmasq (EulerOS-SA-2024-2550)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
208402	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : dnsmasq (EulerOS-SA-2024-2576)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
207174	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : dnsmasq (EulerOS-SA-2024-2433)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
207121	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : dnsmasq (EulerOS-SA-2024-2410)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
200901	Amazon Linux 2 : dnsmasq (ALAS-2024-2580)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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