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Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2023-28450

CVE-2023-28450

HIGH7.5

An issue was discovered in Dnsmasq before 2

Published Mar 15, 2023

Modified 4 months ago

Details

An issue was discovered in Dnsmasq before 2.90. The default maximum EDNS.0 UDP packet size was set to 4096 but should be 1232 because of DNS Flag Day 2020.

References

WEB

https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html

WEB

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00035.html

ADVISORY

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6UQ6LKDTLSSD64TBIZ3XEKBM2SWC63VV/

ADVISORY

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OU2ZT4ITSEOOR2CFBAHK4Z67KXJIEWQA/

WEB

https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html

WEB

https://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGELOG

WEB

https://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb92fb32b746f2104b0f370b5b295bb8dd4bd5e5

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28450

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

7.5

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

HighA:H

7.5/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Timeline

PublishedMar 15, 2023

ModifiedNov 3, 2025

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