Re: Call for testing: dnsmasq security update

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

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.
Cheers,
 -- Guido