A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in dnsmasq when DNSSEC is enabled and before it validates the received DNS entries. A remote attacker, who can create valid DNS replies, could use this flaw to cause an overflow in a heap-allocated memory. This flaw is caused by the lack of length checks in rfc1035.c:extract_name(), which could be abused to make the code execute memcpy() with a negative size in get_rdata() and cause a crash in dnsmasq, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-01-20T15:25:04

Updated: 2024-08-04T15:40:36.769Z

Reserved: 2020-09-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-25683

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-01-20T16:15:14.087

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:18:27.400

Link: CVE-2020-25683

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-25683 - Bugzilla