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Re: Call for testing: dnsmasq security update



Hi Ben,

I've tested the resolver part of 'dnsmasq_2.62-3+deb7u4' for wheezy,
works as expected! Did no testing on dhcp part though.

Hope it helps to get released soon!


Cheers,

Dennis


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/>.


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