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Re: Call for testing: dnsmasq security update



On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 19:33 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 05:31:09PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I've prepared a security update for dnsmasq in wheezy, fixing the
> > relevant CVEs:
> > 
> >   * CVE-2017-14491: DNS heap buffer overflow
> >   * CVE-2017-14492: DHCPv6 RA heap overflow
> >   * CVE-2017-14494: Infoleak handling DHCPv6 forwarded requests
> >   * CVE-2017-14496: Integer underflow in DNS response creation
> > 
> > I checked that the package builds cleanly, the daemon runs and answers
> > DNS requests.  But I'm not familiar with this package so I would
> > appreciate some wider testing before uploading.
> > 
> > The updated source and amd64 binaries are available under
> > <https://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/wheezy-security/>.
> 
> I did some testing of the dnsmasq-base package runnig as dhcp provider
> as spawned by libvirt and it still works as expected.

Thanks.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of kernel, installer and LTS teams

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