CVE-2017-14491

Public on 2017-10-02
Modified on 2019-07-22
Description

A heap buffer overflow was found in dnsmasq in the code responsible for building DNS replies. An attacker could send crafted DNS packets to dnsmasq which would cause it to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.

Severity
Critical
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CVSS v3 Base Score
9.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 dnsmasq 2017-10-02 17:05 ALAS-2017-907
Amazon Linux 2 dnsmasq 2019-07-18 18:22 ALAS2-2019-1251

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H