SUSE-SU-2015:0979-2

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2015-04-28 16:45 - Updated: 2015-04-28 16:45
Summary
Security update for dnsmasq
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for dnsmasq
Description of the patch: The DNS server dnsmasq was updated to fix one security issue and one non-security bug. The following vulnerability was fixed: * CVE-2015-3294: A remote unauthenticated attacker could have caused a denial of service (DoS) or read heap memory, potentially disclosing information such as performed DNS queries or encryption keys. (bsc#928867) The following bug was fixed: * bsc#923144: When answer to an upstream query is a CNAME pointing to an A/AAAA record which is present locally (/etc/hosts), allow caching when the upstream and local A/AAAA records have the same value.
Patchnames: SUSE-SLE12-CLOUD-5-2015-229
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2015-3294
Vendor Fix To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
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