CVE-2015-8899

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2015-11-14
CWE:
CWE-476
Bugzilla:
1343072: CVE-2015-8899 dnsmasq: Denial-of-service when empty address from DNS overlays A record from hosts

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Dnsmasq before 2.76 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a reply with an empty DNS address that has an (1) A or (2) AAAA record defined locally.

Find out more about CVE-2015-8899 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 dnsmasq Not affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) dnsmasq Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 dnsmasq Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 dnsmasq Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) dnsmasq Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 dnsmasq Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 dnsmasq Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 dnsmasq Not affected

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