ALPINE-CVE-2020-25686

ALPINE-CVE-2020-25686

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A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. When receiving a query, dnsmasq does not check for an existing pending request for the same name and forwards a new request. By default, a maximum of 150 pending queries can be sent to upstream servers, so there can be at most 150 queries for the same name. This flaw allows an off-path attacker on the network to substantially reduce the number of attempts that it would have to perform to forge a reply and have it accepted by dnsmasq. This issue is mentioned in the "Birthday Attacks" section of RFC5452. If chained with CVE-2020-25684, the attack complexity of a successful attack is reduced. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

CVSS 3.7 · Low · Fix available

Published

2021-01-20T17:15:13Z

Updated

2026-10-26T11:17:55.156731684Z

Stack: system

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