SUSE-SU-2015:0979-2

Source
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2015/suse-su-20150979-2/
Import Source
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/SUSE-SU-2015:0979-2.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/SUSE-SU-2015:0979-2
Related
Published
2015-04-28T16:45:15Z
Modified
2015-04-28T16:45:15Z
Summary
Security update for dnsmasq
Details

The DNS server dnsmasq was updated to fix one security issue and one non-security bug.

The following vulnerability was fixed:

  • CVE-2015-3294: A remote unauthenticated attacker could have caused a denial of service (DoS) or read heap memory, potentially disclosing information such as performed DNS queries or encryption keys. (bsc#928867)

The following bug was fixed:

  • bsc#923144: When answer to an upstream query is a CNAME pointing to an A/AAAA record which is present locally (/etc/hosts), allow caching when the upstream and local A/AAAA records have the same value.
References

Affected packages

SUSE:Cloud Compute Node for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 5 / dnsmasq

Package

Name
dnsmasq
Purl
purl:rpm/suse/dnsmasq&distro=SUSE%20Cloud%20Compute%20Node%20for%20SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%2012%205

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.71-4.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "dnsmasq-utils": "2.71-4.1"
        }
    ]
}