How to make dnsmasq listen only on loopback?

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Issue

Dnsmasq is listening on wildcard IPv4 (0:0:0:0) and IPv6 (:::). How can we restrict availability of DNS service only to local host?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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