CVE-2015-8899

high

Published 2016-06-30 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a reply with an empty DNS address that has an (1) A or (2) AAAA record defined locally.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.76-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.76-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.76-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.76-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.76-1`
ubuntu	15.10	affected
ubuntu	16.04	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
thekelleys	dnsmasq	`{"endIncluding":"2.75"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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