FreeBSD : dnsmasq -- data exposure and denial of service (37569eb7-0125-11e5-9d98-080027ef73ec)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83793

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Nick Sampanis reported a potential memory exposure and denial of service vulnerability against dnsmasq 2.72. The CVE entry summarizes this as :

The tcp_request function in Dnsmasq before 2.73rc4 does not properly handle the return value of the setup_reply function, which allows remote attackers to read process memory and cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a malformed DNS request.'

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83793

File Name: freebsd_pkg_37569eb7012511e59d98080027ef73ec.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 5/26/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:dnsmasq, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:dnsmasq-devel, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3294

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