suse-su-2015:0979-2
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2015-04-28 16:45
Modified
2015-04-28 16:45
Summary
Security update for dnsmasq

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for dnsmasq
Description of the patch
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.
Patchnames
SUSE-SLE12-CLOUD-5-2015-229
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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