Summary
Dnsmasq is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.
An attacker can exploit this issue to cause denial-of-service conditions through a stream of spoofed DNS queries producing large results.
Dnsmasq versions 2.62 and prior are vulnerable.
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Classification
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CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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