VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-3294

medium
Published 2015-05-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.4

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.72-3.1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.72-3.1
debian debianforkyfixed2.72-3.1
debian debiansidfixed2.72-3.1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.72-3.1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
thekelleysdnsmasq{"endIncluding":"2.73"}

References

CWEs

CWE-19

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.