CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-45955
Critical (9.8) in thekelleys dnsmasq. EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Dnsmasq 2.86 has a heap-based buffer overflow in resize_packet (called from FuzzResizePacket and fuzz_rfc1035.c) because of the lack of a proper bounds check upon pseudo header re-insertion. NOTE: the vendor's position is that CVE-2021-45951 through CVE-2021-45957 "do not represent real vulnerabilities, to the best of our knowledge." However, a contributor states that a security patch (mentioned in 016162.html) is needed
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- thekelleys:dnsmasq
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=35898
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/dnsmasq/OSV-2021-932.yaml
- https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2022q1/016162.html
- https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2022q1/016164.html
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=35898