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Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1544-03
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1544-03 - An update for dnsmasq is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.
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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_1544.json
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: dnsmasq security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1544-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1544
Issue date: 2024-03-27
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-28450
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Summary:
An update for dnsmasq is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
The dnsmasq packages contain dnsmasq, a lightweight DNS (Domain Name Server) forwarder and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server.
Security Fixes:
dnsmasq: default maximum EDNS.0 UDP packet size was set to 4096 but should be 1232 (CVE-2023-28450)
dnsmasq: bind9: KeyTrap - Extreme CPU consumption in DNSSEC validator (CVE-2023-50387)
dnsmasq: bind9: Preparing an NSEC3 closest encloser proof can exhaust CPU resources (CVE-2023-50868)
Bug Fix:
- Segmentation fault occurs in dnsmasq-2.79-26 in RHEL8
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-28450
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178948
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263914
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263917
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