CVE-2015-8899

NameCVE-2015-8899
DescriptionDnsmasq before 2.76 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a reply with an empty DNS address that has an (1) A or (2) AAAA record defined locally.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
dnsmasq (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2.72-3+deb8u7fixed
stretch (security)2.76-5+deb9u3fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2.76-5+deb9u4fixed
buster, buster (lts)2.80-1+deb10u3fixed
buster (security)2.80-1+deb10u1fixed
bullseye2.85-1fixed
bullseye (security)2.85-1+deb11u1fixed
bookworm2.89-1fixed
sid, trixie2.90-7fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
dnsmasqsourcewheezy(not affected)
dnsmasqsourcejessie(not affected)
dnsmasqsource(unstable)2.76-1

Notes

[jessie] - dnsmasq <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[wheezy] - dnsmasq <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2016q2/010479.html
Fixed by: http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=commit;h=41a8d9e99be9f2cc8b02051dd322cb45e0faac87 (v2.76rc1)
Introduced by: http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=commit;h=cbc652423403e3cef00e00240f6beef713142246 (v2.73rc1)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/1581181

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