Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1124-1 dnsmasq -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

06 Oct 2017

Affected Packages:

dnsmasq

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-14491, CVE-2017-14492, CVE-2017-14494.

More information:

Felix Wilhelm, Fermin J. Serna, Gabriel Campana, Kevin Hamacher, Ron Bowes and Gynvael Coldwind of the Google Security Team discovered several vulnerabilities in dnsmasq, a small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server, which may result in denial of service, information leak or the execution of arbitrary code.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2.62-3+deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your dnsmasq packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS