CVSS 3.0
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-14493
Critical (9.8). EPSS 85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Stack-based buffer overflow in dnsmasq before 2.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DHCPv6 request.
Severity
- EPSS
- 85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- opensuse:leap
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
- thekelleys:dnsmasq
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2017-10/msg00006.html
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4561
- http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG
- http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3d4ff1ba8419546490b464418223132529514033
- http://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2017-005.txt