Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1334-03 dnsmasq
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: dnsmasq security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:1334-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1334
Issue date: 2024-03-14
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2023-50387
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Summary:
An update for dnsmasq is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
The dnsmasq packages contain Dnsmasq, a lightweight DNS (Domain Name Server) forwarder and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server.
Security Fix(es):
* dnsmasq: bind9: KeyTrap – Extreme CPU consumption in DNSSEC
validator (CVE-2023-50387)
* dnsmasq: bind9: Preparing an NSEC3 closest encloser proof can
exhaust CPU resources (CVE-2023-50868)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2023-50387
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263914
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263917