CVE-2009-2958

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2009-08-31
Bugzilla:
519020: CVE-2009-2957, CVE-2009-2958 dnsmasq: multiple vulnerabilities in TFTP server

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The tftp_request function in tftp.c in dnsmasq before 2.50, when --enable-tftp is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a TFTP read (aka RRQ) request with a malformed blksize option.

Find out more about CVE-2009-2958 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (dnsmasq) RHSA-2009:1238 2009-09-01

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