RHBA-2025:17424 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for dnsmasq is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

The dnsmasq packages contain Dnsmasq, a lightweight DNS (Domain Name Server) forwarder and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• dnsmasq caching not working as expected (JIRA:RHEL-61943)
• dnsmasq does not forward all of the received queries although it does in previous versions. (JIRA:RHEL-6586)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• RHEL-6586 - dnsmasq does not forward all of the received queries although it does in previous versions.

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)