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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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
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-01-20T16:15:14.087
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:18:27.400
Link: CVE-2020-25683
Redhat