UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8899

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / dnsmasq

Package

Name: dnsmasq
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/dnsmasq@2.75-1ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.75-1ubuntu0.16.04.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.75-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.75-1ubuntu0.16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "dnsmasq"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.75-1ubuntu0.16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "dnsmasq-base"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.75-1ubuntu0.16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "dnsmasq-utils"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}