Dnsmasq is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause denial-of-service conditions through a stream of spoofed DNS queries producing large results. Dnsmasq versions 2.62 and prior are vulnerable.

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54353
• http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833033

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Updated on 2015-03-25