USN-4976-1 fixed a vulnerability in Dnsmasq. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
Dnsmasq has been updated to 2.79-1 for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM in order to fix some security issues.
Original advisory details:
Petr Mensik discovered that Dnsmasq incorrectly randomized source ports in certain configurations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to facilitate DNS cache poisoning attacks.
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"availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
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"binary_name": "dnsmasq"
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"binary_name": "dnsmasq-base"
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"binary_version": "2.79-1ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1",
"binary_name": "dnsmasq-base-lua"
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"binary_version": "2.79-1ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1",
"binary_name": "dnsmasq-utils"
}
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