CVE-2015-8899 (GCVE-0-2015-8899)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-30 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
VLAI
Summary
Dnsmasq 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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-04-18 00:00
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