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Posted on 02 October 2017
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3989-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
October 02, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : dnsmasq
CVE ID : CVE-2017-14491 CVE-2017-14492 CVE-2017-14493 CVE-2017-14494
CVE-2017-14495 CVE-2017-14496
Felix Wilhelm, Fermin J. Serna, Gabriel Campana, Kevin Hamacher, Ron
Bowes and Gynvael Coldwind of the Google Security Team discovered
several vulnerabilities in dnsmasq, a small caching DNS proxy and
DHCP/TFTP server, which may result in denial of service, information
leak or the execution of arbitrary code.
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.72-3+deb8u2.
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.76-5+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your dnsmasq packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
