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SUSE-SU-2015:0979-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2015-04-28 15:39 - Updated: 2026-09-20 12:03

Summary

Security update for dnsmasq

Severity

Moderate

Notes

Title of the patch: Security update for dnsmasq

Description of the patch: The DNS server dnsmasq was updated to fix one security issue and one non-security bug. The following vulnerability was fixed: * CVE-2015-3294: A remote unauthenticated attacker could have caused a denial of service (DoS) or read heap memory, potentially disclosing information such as performed DNS queries or encryption keys. (bsc#928867) The following bug was fixed: * bsc#923144: When answer to an upstream query is a CNAME pointing to an A/AAAA record which is present locally (/etc/hosts), allow caching when the upstream and local A/AAAA records have the same value.

Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-229,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-229

CVE-2015-3294

Affected products

Recommended 10 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12:dnsmasq-0:2.71-4.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12:dnsmasq-0:2.71-4.1.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12:dnsmasq-0:2.71-4.1.s390x	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12:dnsmasq-0:2.71-4.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:dnsmasq-0:2.71-4.1.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:dnsmasq-0:2.71-4.1.s390x	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:dnsmasq-0:2.71-4.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12:dnsmasq-0:2.71-4.1.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12:dnsmasq-0:2.71-4.1.s390x	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12:dnsmasq-0:2.71-4.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact moderate

References

10 references

URL	Category
https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/	external
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/s…	self
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/…	self
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-upd…	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/923144	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/928867	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3294/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3294	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/923144	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/928867	external

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CVE-2015-3294 (GCVE-0-2015-3294)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-05-08 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:39

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

11 references

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http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git%3B…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2593-1	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-01	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032195	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74452	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535354/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Date Public

2015-04-07 00:00

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