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Rocky Linux: RLSA-2024:1335 dnsmasq security update

March 27, 2024
An update is available for dnsmasq. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list

Summary

An update is available for dnsmasq. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list


The dnsmasq packages contain Dnsmasq, a lightweight DNS (Domain Name Server) forwarder and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server. Security Fix(es): * dnsmasq: bind9: KeyTrap - Extreme CPU consumption in DNSSEC validator (CVE-2023-50387) * dnsmasq: bind9: Preparing an NSEC3 closest encloser proof can exhaust CPU resources (CVE-2023-50868) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

RPMs

dnsmasq-0:2.79-31.el8_9.2.aarch64.rpm

dnsmasq-0:2.79-31.el8_9.2.src.rpm

dnsmasq-0:2.79-31.el8_9.2.x86_64.rpm

dnsmasq-debuginfo-0:2.79-31.el8_9.2.aarch64.rpm

dnsmasq-debuginfo-0:2.79-31.el8_9.2.x86_64.rpm

dnsmasq-debugsource-0:2.79-31.el8_9.2.aarch64.rpm

dnsmasq-debugsource-0:2.79-31.el8_9.2.x86_64.rpm

dnsmasq-utils-0:2.79-31.el8_9.2.aarch64.rpm

dnsmasq-utils-0:2.79-31.el8_9.2.x86_64.rpm

dnsmasq-utils-debuginfo-0:2.79-31.el8_9.2.aarch64.rpm

dnsmasq-utils-debuginfo-0:2.79-31.el8_9.2.x86_64.rpm

References

No References

CVEs

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-50387

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-50868

Severity
Name: RLSA-2024:1335
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 8

Fixes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263914

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263917


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