suse-su-2025:20118-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2025-02-03 09:22
Modified
2025-02-03 09:22
Summary
Security update for dnsmasq

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for dnsmasq
Description of the patch
This update for dnsmasq fixes the following issues: - Update to 2.90: * CVE-2023-50387, CVE-2023-50868: Fixed a Denial Of Service while trying to validate specially crafted DNSSEC responses (bsc#1219823, bsc#1219826). * Fix reversion in --rev-server introduced in 2.88 which caused breakage if the prefix length is not exactly divisible by 8 (IPv4) or 4 (IPv6). * Fix possible SEGV when there server(s) for a particular domain are configured, but no server which is not qualified for a particular domain. * Set the default maximum DNS UDP packet sice to 1232. * Add --no-dhcpv4-interface and --no-dhcpv6-interface for better control over which interfaces are providing DHCP service. * Fix issue with stale caching * Add configurable caching for arbitrary RR-types. * Add --filter-rr option, to filter arbitrary RR-types. - SLP got dropped, remove config (bsc#1214884)
Patchnames
SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-185
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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